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The  Abolition  of  Ownership: 
The  Natural  Government 


By  GEORGE  REED 

Univ.  of  Calif. 
ClaM(J1877 


Copyright  1917  by  Geobqb  Rked 


A.  CARLISLE  <k  CO. 

San  Fhancisco,  Calitohnia 

1917 


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This  message  of  the  true  government  is  hereby 
openly  proclaimed  to  all  the  world.    Mat.  XXIV  :14. 

The  true  peace,  the  true  government,  shall  now  be 
established.  The  true  house  shall  now  be  occupied. 
John  XIV  :27-29,l-3,  XVI  :33.  Now  comes  the  day  of 
the  date  of  whose  coming  no  man  in  old  time  knew, 
and  now  comes  the  flood  that  shall  sweep  capitalism 
forever  away.  Mat.  XXIV:36-39,  Luke  X:22,  Mat. 
VII  :21-29. 

All  true  patriots  are  now  called  upon  to  be  up  and 
doing.    Luke  XI  :26,  27 ;  Jas.  1 :22. 

Out  of  your  tents,  O,  Israel ! 

GEORGE  REED. 
January,  1917. 


INDEX 

PAOB 

America,  American  27,  29,  30,  33,  38 

Apothecary   75 

Armageddon   78 

Avoirdupois   73,  123 

Babylon  5,  19,  20,  26,  33,  50,  100,  158 

Caesar  7,  8,  37,  38,  93,  94,  111 

Capital,   Capitalists 31,  34,  37,  43,  46,  47,  90 

Capitalism 5,  10,  14,  18,  19,  20,  21,  35,  39,  44, 

45,  47,  53,  54,  61-65 

Citizenship  24,  70,  191 

City 20,  22,  54 

Civilization 93 

Commerce,  Commercial 40,  54,  118,  119,  124,  127, 

138,  140,  142-145,  172 

Commercialism 7,  8,  94,  129 

Commodity 56,  113,  138,  145,  146 

Credit 24 

Crisis 22,  24 

Debt 16,  24,  41,  51,  87,  88,  93.  94,  95,  108 

Dollar 54,  74,  80,  81,  116-119,  123 

Elect 101,  181,  182,  187-191 

Fear 18,  189 

Finance,  Financier 41,  93,  131 

Future 7,  32,  153,  154 

Gentiles 18,  19,  149 

^lory 7,  38,  46,  71,  185,  188,  191 


u  INDEX 

PAGE 

Gorilla... 12,  130 

Government 9,  19,  21,  22,  23 

Gramme  75,  76 

Happiness 93,  132,  176,  177,  178,  191 

Heaven 12,123,150 

Hell 21,  37,  44,  90,  93,  101,  109,  129,  144,  179 

Hypocrites 36 

Industry 14,  50,    98 

Inheritance „ .9,  22 

Israel 6,  14,  15,  17,  110 

Interpretation 96 

Jerusalem 6,  7,  18 

Judas 23,  72 

Justice 9,  15,  21,  26,  70,  71,  104,  110,  189 

Kingdom  of  God 5,  6,  11,  15,  17,  19,  20,  26,  33, 

49,  50,  61,  70,  106,  186,  181,  191 

Labor. 56,  57,81 

Liberty 38,  185 

Life 42,  43,  45,  47,  60,  61,  112,  175,  178,  182,  191 

Mammon 5,  20,  28,  40,  62,  175 

Merchandise 13,  56,  128,  129 

Merchant 8,  40,  63,  139,  141 

Metric 75,  76,  139 

Mexico  27,  1 18 

Money 7,  8,  16,  32,  39,  40,  41,  42,  56,  57,  58,  60, 

63,  82,  87,  88 

Natural  Law 5,  7,  9,  10,  15,  62,  182,  191 


INDEX  iii 

PAGE 

Nature 10,  11,  79,  103,  105,  180 

Nobility  27,  1 79 

Ownership 22,  24,  25,  31,  41,  44,  46,  47,  50,  51,  55, 

56,  60,  61,  67,  70,  90,  94,  129,  149 

Peace 5,  34,  48,  69,  98,-99,  107,  111,  189,  190,  149 

Price 121-126,  136,  137,  142-146,  150-172,  174 

Produce  23,  103 

Prophet  17,  35 

Protection 36,  69,  94 

Ratio 82,  126,  127,  136,  138 

Son  of  Man 6,  49,  130,  187 

Spirit  of  Truth  (Holy  Spirit)  (public  spirit)....7,  8, 

39,  47,  61,  93,  132,  143,  144,  172,  173,  174,  176,  180    , 

Tariff  95 

Tax,  Taxation 12,  14,  24,  35,  36,  37,  44,  60,  65,  66,  179 

Thief 8 

Token  .^ 97,  115 

Troy 73-75,  81,  85 

Truth 10,  11,  16,  71,  131,  178,  179,  182,  183,  184 

Use  22,  23 

Value 54,  59,  61,  64,  78,  103,  105,  106,  112,  116, 

119,  120,  121,  128,  129,  140,  142-156,  150-172 

Woman  29 

Word 104,  179,  183,  190 

Work 42,  43,  46 

World 27,  35,  39,  45,  51,  59,  111,  179,  186 

Zion 5,  20,  49,  112 


PREFACE 

Capitalism  is  the  state  of  man  (human  affairs) 
(life)  in  which  ownership  obtains  (is  practiced). 

We  proclaim  the  abolition  of  ownership. 

The  abolition  of  ownership  signifies  the  aban- 
donment of  capitalism  and  brings  on  the  govern- 
ment in  accord  with  the  great  frame  of  the 
universe,  the  true  or  natural  government,  the 
"Kingdom  of  God."  Mat.  XXIV.  1,2.  In  this 
government  men  live,  progress  and  develop 
in  universal  health,  peace  and  happiness,  the 
natural  or  divine  order.  John  XIV.  27.  XVI.  33. 

In  this  government  men  live  in  a  new  state  of 
affairs  and  freely  unobstructedly,  grow  (in) 
toward  the  Future  Supernal.  Rev.  XXI.  5.  John 
XIII.  34. 

This  government  is  within  you  and  about  you 
and  among  you  and  the  First  or  Greatest  duty 
of  man  is  to  remove  obstruction  to  its  full  free 
operation  to  fully  accept  it.  Mark  I.  37.  Heb. 
XIII.  14.  Luke  XII.  31.  Mat.  VI.  33.  Man  has 
no  intricate  and  di£Ficult  system  of  government 
to  build  up;  his  task  is  simply  to  accord  in  the 


"music  of  the  spheres,"  the  song  of  the  stars, 
the  natural  or  divine  harmony.  Mat.  XV.  9,  1 3. 
His  government  is  continuous  and  man  pro- 
gresses as  he  is  guided  by  the  spirit  of  truth  and 
hears  the  voice  of  intelUgence,  the  word  of  God. 
John  XVII.  1 7.  And  the  journey  to  (in)  the 
universal  perfection  is  continuously  healthful 
and  divinely  happy. 

GEORGE  REED. 

San  Francisco,  Jan.,  1917. 


CHAPTER  I. 

The  abolition  of  ownership  brings  men  into 
the  true  government,  the  government  of  Peace 
on  Earth,  Good-will  among  men.  Luke  II.  14, 
49,  50.  Rev.  XXII.  14,  15.  In  this,  men  are 
beyond  capitalism,  the  (land)  owning  and  mone- 
tary despotism;  and  there  is  no  money,  no  com- 
merce, no  monetary  debt,  no  monetary  taxation, 
no  homage  to  the  devil,  no  service  to  Mammon, 
no  bondage  to  brutalism. 

This  state  of  affairs  accords  with  the  natural 
harmony,  for  man  is  of  the  (active)  creation  of 
God,  the  natural  universe,  and  subject  to  (the) 
natural  law;  (of  advance  development,  growth, 
evolution,  creation).  And  our  hearts  should  in- 
cline us  to  keep  this  law. 

This  means  the  recognition  and  acknowledg- 
ment of  the  transcendent  development,  the  true 
and  universal  government ;  the  Kingdom  of  God 
and  its  righteousness  (method)  (system).  It 
fulfills  the  downfall  of  "Babylon"  Rev.  XVII. 
XVIII.  et  al. ;  and  presents  "Zion,"  the  new,  the 


6  THE  ABOUTION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

holy,  the  heavenly  Jerusalem;  Rev.  III.  !2. 
XXI.  2.  10.  Heb.  XI.  10.  XII.  22,  the  heavenly 
government  or  "city,"  the  government  of 
"Israel,"  the  government  of  perfect  health,  peace 
and  good-will,  the  Kingdom  of  God.  It  is  the 
materialization  formalization  incarnation  of  the 
prophecy  of  Heaven  on  Earth,  Rev.  XXL,  XXII., 
the  Kingdom  of  Heaven.  Mat.  V.-VII.,  et  al. 
It  is  as  it  were  the  word  "made  flesh"  the  Spirit 
heard  and  obeyed.    John  I.  1 4.    Mat.  V.  1  7,  1 8. 

And  it  means  the  coming  into  power  of  the 
"Son  of  Mem,"  the  glorified  man,  the  man  of 
the  great  future,  for  great  men,  great  ideas, 
great  times  and  great  government.  John  XIII.  31. 
Mat.  XXIII.  27.  XXIV.  27,  39,  et  al. 

The  new  Jerusalem  (government)  shall  rise 
or  clearly  appear,  and  the  old  (Jerusalem) 
government,  the  one  that  killeth  the  prophets, 
shall  fall  or  forever  disappear.  And  when  you 
shall  see  the  world  compassed  with  zu-mies 
and  the  abomination  that  maketh  desolate,  the 
money  power;  standing  where  it  ought  not  to 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  7 

stand,  then  know  that  the  end  thereof  is  near. 
Luke  XXL  20.  Mat.  XXIV.  Mark  XIIL  14. 
Mat.  XXIIL  37.  XXIV.  2,  35.  Rev.  XXL  5. 
Acts  VIL  56. 

Trust  in  the  Future,  the  hand  of  God;  in  the 
Natural  Law,  the  work  of  God;  and  in  the 
Spirit  of  truth,  the  holy  spirit,  the  public  spirit, 
the  spirit  of  the  Word  of  God.    John  XVII.  1  7. 

There  shall  be  one  fold  and  one  shepherd. 
John  X.  16.  The  fold  is  the  true  government, 
the  Kingdom  of  God;  the  shepherd  is  the  public 
spirit;  the  holy  spirit.  And  the  holy  spirit  is 
the  spirit  of  truth.  Be  comforted.  XIV.  26. 
XV.  26.  Be  confident.  Fear  not.  Luke  XII.  32, 
33-48. 

A  splendid  and  comfortable  dwelling  place 
(plan)  is  now  prepared  for  you — ^but  in  order 
to  enter  into  and  enjoy  it  you  must  first  expel 
commercialism.  John  XIIL  27-3  L  XIV.  1-4. 
Do  this  Eind  the  door  shall  open  and  you  shall 
enter  into  this  splendid  dwelling.  Mat.  VII.  6-8. 
XL  13.  Luke  XL  13.  And  here  you  shall  see 
the  glory  that  msmy  believe  they  shall  see  some- 


8  THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

time,  somewhere.  And  this  they  believe  be- 
cause they  hear  the  voice  of  the  angel  of  prayer. 
Mat.  VI.  1 0.  Luke  XL  2.  No  merchant  nor  thief 
nor  wage-earner  nor  banker  nor  betrayer  of  men 
nor  dollar  diplomat  shall  remain  in  this  house 
(government).  This  is  "my  father's  house," 
and  in  it  there  is  no  merchandise  and  no  com- 
merce. And  in  it  there  is  no  merchant  and  no 
thief.  And  in  it  there  is  no  money  and  no 
tribute  unto  Caesar.  John  II.  14-16.  Mat.  XXI. 
12-16.  Mark  XI.  12-22.  Luke  XIX.  37-48. 
Luke  II.  1.  3.  XXII.  63-71.  XXIII.  1-4.  John 
XIIL  30-31.  XVII.  12,  17.  Rev.  XXII.  15. 
Quickly  expel  commercialism.  John  XIIL  27-35. 
Acts  I.  4  and  1 6  and  20.  Install  the  true  govern- 
ment. Enter  into  this  house  which  is  your  in- 
heritance prepared  for  you  from  the  foundation 
of  the  world.  Mat.  XXV.  34-46.  XXIV.  25. 
John  XIV.  29. 

Freely  receive  of  the  spirit  of  truth,  the  holy 
spirit,  the  public  spirit  (John  XVII.  11,  21-23, 
24-26)  and  you  will  accord  with  or  in  the  uni- 
versal or  creative  spirit,  the  soul  of  intelligence, 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  9 

the  Will  of  the  creation;  the  Creator.  XIV. 
14-17,  20-29.  IV.  22-24.  Mat.  VI.  1-15.  And 
you  will  read  clearly  the  justice  that  is  written 
in  your  hearts  (I  John  III.  2)  for  the  cloud  shall 
roll  away  and  your  eyes  shall  see  God  as  he  is. 
To  be  truly  great  you  must  first  be  accordant 
with  the  (progressive)  (advancing)  creation,  the 
natural  (law  government  plan  design  of  the) 
universe.  Seek  you  first  the  government  of  the 
natural  universe,  the  "Kingdom  of  God."  Mat. 
VI.  33.  Luke  XI.  31-34.  XVIII.  19.  Let  the 
great  drama  of  the  world  be  freely  enacted.  Let 
the  will  of  God  be  freely  done.  Mat.  VI.  10. 
Luke  XI.  2.  Obstruct  not  the  glorious  natural 
work,  but  freely  assist  in  the  living  plan.  In  this 
realm  the  great  servant  is  the  great  master. 
Mat.  XX.  25-34.  John  XIV.  10.  Exalt  the 
public  spirit.  Luke  I.  51,  52. 

The  grandest  palace  is  as  natural  as  the  poor- 
est hut  and  man  and  everyman  is  always  in  a 
state  of  nature;  a  natural  state.  And  the  things 
you  shall  see  and  have  not  seen  are  as  Natural 
as  the  things  you  have  seen.    John  I.   51,   52. 


10        THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

And  the  true  progress  of  man  is  accordance  in 
the  natural  advance,  the  (progressive)  plan,  the 
(true)  way.  Obstruction  to  this  brings  destruc- 
tion to  those  who  obstruct.  Conformity  with 
this  procures  continuous  happiness  for  all  men. 
Seek  ye  first  the  Kingdom  of  God,  the  natural 
government,  the  true  way  of  the  Life,  the  in- 
heritance prepared  for  you.  And  the  greatest 
happiness  is  obtained  by  seeking  this  way.  Luke 
XIIL  31-35.  John  XIII.  30, -31.  And  sooner  or 
later  you  shall  take  this  way.  And  resistance  to 
this  way  is  unwholesome  and  brings  punishment 
day  by  day. 

And  when  men  talk  of  the  "conquest  of 
nature"  as  if  it  were  a  violent  strife  they  talk 
like  capitalists,  men  who  would  own  the  earth, 
heirs  of  the  devil,  sons  of  the  past  (darkness) 
(hell).  Mat.  IV.  9.  Luke  IV.  5-7.  Mat.  XXII. 
13.  Mat.  XXIII.  13-15.  For  man  advances  as 
he  allies  himself  with  or  unites  with  or  avails 
himself  of  or  merges  with  (the  power  of)  nature, 
the  Will  of  God  itself.  And  man  prospers  as 
he  hears  and  obeys  the  truth  and  follows  the  way 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  11 

marked  out  by  it.  John  XIV.  6.  And  Niature  at 
last  cuts  off  and  eliminates  non-conformity  and 
non-conformists.  John  XV.  1-27.  These  are 
withered  branches,  sons  of  perdition  and  shall 
never  wear  the  seamless  robe.  They  are  elimi- 
nated and  left  dead  in  the  night  of  the  past. 
Mat.  XXII.  11-13.  John  XVII.  12.  XIII.  30. 
Acts  I.  16-20. 

The  mill  of  nature  works  according  to  the 
eternal  plan  and  according  to  this  plan  it  grinds 
regularly  and  sifts  justly.  And  for  the  life  of 
men  and  for  the  true  progress  of  man  the  sensi- 
ble humane  way  is  the  easy  way  and  is  the 
progressive  and  prophetic  way. 

Seek  ye  first  and  above  all  other  things  the 
"government,"  "Kingdom"  of  God  and  you 
shall  know  the  truth  (John  XVII.  17)  and  the 
word  of  God  shall  make  you  free.  John  VIII.  32. 

And  man  shall  continuously  glorify  God 
(flourish)  and  enjoy  the  Earth.  And  the  "Son 
of  Man,"  the  noble  man,  the  man  who  hallows 
the  supernal  ideal,  the  man  of  the  new  dispen- 
sation, the  man  proud  of  true  accomplishment, 


12        THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

has  the  divine  favor  and  shall  be  acceleratedly 
glorified  and  by  and  in  him  (accordingly)  (cor- 
respondingly) God  shall  be  glorified,  John  XIII. 
31,  32.  XIV.  1-3.  XV.  8.  XVI.  13,  14.  XVII. 
1,  4.  22-26. 

And  God  is  glorified  in  every  noble  act  of 
men. 

And  the  sordid  man  shall  be  left  behind  as 
unto  the  gorilla  and  he  shall  be  more  extinct 
than  the  gorilla.  He  shall  not  be  suffered  to 
live  nor  to  procreate  not  even  as  a  specimen  of 
the  beast,  not  even  as  a  horrid  example.  He 
shall  die  the  eternal  death.  And  damned  forever 
in  darkness  he  shall  lie.  Mat.  XXII.  11-13. 
John  XIV.  29.  He  is  eternally  damned;  bound 
hand  and  foot  and  shrouded  in  utter  darkness 
he  shall  lie  damned  forever. 

Capitalism  taxes  and  oppresses  man  for  man 
can  be  taxed  and  oppressed.  Inanimate  earth 
cannot  be  t£ixed  nor  oppressed.  The  great  virtue 
in  ownership  is  the  power  to  tax  or  oppress. 
And  man  shall  not  be  taxed  and  the  earth  shall 
not  be  owned  and  there  shall  be  free  and  equit- 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  13 

able  and  abundant  production,  distribution  and 
consumption.  John  X.  10.  And  the  power  to 
tax  and  to  oppress  is  capital,  the  money  power. 
And  it  is  the  scourge  of  God.  And  let  men 
beware. 

Every  man  shall  be  his  brother's  keeper  but 
not  his  brother's  oppressor.  And  taixation  is 
obstruction  to  the  free  and  true  di£Fusion  of  the 
blessing  of  God  and  to  the  free  and  true  dis- 
tribution of  the  blessings  of  God. 

And  men  shall  put  fear  out  of  the  world  and 
shall  drive  the  devil,  the  spirit  of  evil,  the  money 
power  out  of  it.  I  John  IV.  18.  Mat.  IV.  10-11. 
And  man  shall  abolish  ownership  and  demone- 
tize the  world  and  shall  reduce  its  value,  its 
"wealth,"  to  zero;  and  it  cannot  be  measured  in 
money.  Ownership  shall  be  no  more  and 
capital,  the  power  of  ownership,  shall  be  no 
more,  and  the  value  of  money  and  of  all  things 
shall  be  zero  and  there  shall  not  be  any  pur- 
chase in  money  and  money  and  money  power 
shall  be  no  more.  There  is  no  merchandise  in 
the  true  government,  the  Kingdom  of  God.  John 


14         THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

II.  1 6.  And  man's  debts  shall  be  overcome  and 
passed  by;  i.  e.,  automatically  annihilated.  And 
man  shall  not  be  chained  to  the  past,  the  dead. 
And  ownership  is  the  "security"  of  capitalism, 
the  kingdom  of  the  devil,  and  it  shall  be  de- 
stroyed. Mat.  XXIV.  2.  3.  Luke  XXI.  5-7. 

And  to  tax  posterity  is  the  attempt  of  tyranny. 
To  tax  the  future  is  to  oppose  the  present  and  to 
postpone  the  blessing  of  God.  And  to  oppress 
is  to  tax  and  to  incur  the  curse  of  God.  And 
every  tax  of  capitalism  is  an  overtax. 

And  Israel  is  free  and  her  children  shall  be 
born  and  shall  live  free.  For  the  God  of  Israel 
is  the  God  of  Life.  And  it  is  insanity  to  love 
the  hell  that  unto  us  the  dead  decree. 

And  industrial  or  productive  activity  shall 
be  free  and  in  it  all  the  world  shall  be  freely 
arranged  and  freely  blessed.  And  industry,  or 
productive  activity,  production  distribution  and 
consumption;  shall  be  truly  regulated — not  pre- 
vented nor  obstructed.  And  the  earth  shall  be 
used  rightly,  gloriously.  And  the  whole  earth 
shall  be  used  for  the  glory  of  God  and  man. 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  15 

And  man  shall  glorify,  shall  flourish  gloriously. 
And  true  adjustment,  divine  justice;  shall  be  the 
law,  and  health  shall  never  fail.  And  in  happi- 
ness every  true  man  shall  live. 

Men  shall  hear  the  truth  and  the  whole  earth 
shall  be  under  the  true  government,  the  King- 
dom of  God. 

The  (spirit  of  the)  Christ  shall  reign  on  earth 
and  the  Kingdom  of  God  shall  obtain.  In  in- 
finite glory  and  in  supernal  beauty  and  in  perfect 
health  man  shall  live.  The  state  of  man  herein 
is  free  and  noble,  transcendental  and  "glorified." 
I  John  III.  1-3.  Jude  24,  25.  John  XII.  28-30, 
31,  49,  50.  XIII.  31. 

Forgive  your  debtors  and  debt  is  dead.  Israel 
shall  cast  out  debt  and  every  son  of  Israel  shall 
be  free  and  out  of  debt.  All  Israel  shall  be  out 
of  bondage  to  Mammon.  Is.  LVIII.  6.  LIX.  1-14. 
There  shall  be  no  poverty  nor  property  nor 
Mammon.  And  the  rich  shall  not  rule  over  the 
poor.  Prov.  XXI.  3,  7.  For  there  shall  be  no 
rich  nor  poor — of  that  sort.  You  shall  not  serve 
the  prince  of  the  world  of  property,  the  father  of 


16        THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

liars,  the  king  of  darkness,  debt,  death  and  hell. 
Mat.  IV.  8-10.  Luke  IV.  5-9.  John  XIV.  19-31. 
XXI.  3 1 .  XVI.  1  1 .  And  Mammon  shall  not  be, 
and  money,  the  measure  of  Mammon,  shall  not 
be.  And  the  rule  of  money  shall  not  be.  You 
shall  serve  the  God  whose  word  is  truth,  and 
Him  only  shall  you  serve.  And  the  spirit  of 
the  Lord  will  be  upon  you.  Luke  IV.  8,  18-19. 
Is.  LVIII.  4-6. 

The  power  (name)  of  God  you  shall  freely 
allow  (hallow).  The  true  government  shall 
freely  come.  As  heaven  is  (governed)  so  shall 
you  (earth)  be  (governed).  Your  daily  bread 
you  shall  be  duly  given.  Your  debts  you  shall 
be  forgiven  and  your  debtors  you  shall  forgive. 
You  shall  be  led  away  from  the  influence  (temp- 
tation) of  the  devil.  And  you  shall  be  delivered 
from  evil. 

You  shall  leave  behind  you  the  world  of  debt, 
condemnation,  death,  hell  and  fear. 

The  knowledge  of  the  truth  shall  glorify  you 
and  this  glorification  shall  transfigure  you.    And 


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you  shall  live  in  the  world  of  truth.  And  Elias 
shall  restore  all  things  to  the  state  of  justice  and 
the  times  of  restitution  are  near.  Mat.  XVII.  1  I . 
Mark  IX.  12.  Acts  III.  21.  And  the  effulgent 
era  of  universal  and  permanent  peace  and  pros- 
perity shall  appear.  Acts  III.  19.  And  the 
prophets  of  light  shall  not  be  derided  nor 
smitten  nor  persecuted.  And  every  man  shall 
be  efficient  and  so  shall  the  whole  nation  be. 
And  the  prophets  of  light  shall  be  vindicated. 
And  the  light  of  the  world  and  the  hearts  of 
men  shall  be  magnified  and  shall  be  uplifted. 

Hear  ye,  O  Israel!  We  inveigh  against  mud- 
dlers meddlers  and  violators  and  all  hypocrites 
tyrants  and  oppressors  whether  civil  religious  or 
military  and  all  those  who  by  force  and  by  fraud 
oppose  the  true  advance  of  man,  and  prevent 
the  coming  of  the  kingdom  of  Israel,  the  true 
government,  the  Kingdom  of  God.  Mat.  XI.  1 2. 
XXII.  12,  13.  XXIII.  14-39.  XXIV.  1-3. 

We  advocate  the  conservation  of  the  fabric  of 
the  plan,  the  progressive  scheme  of  the  Life  of 
the  universe.    We  uplift  and  uphold  the  light  of 


18         THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

the  world.  John  XII.  34,  35,  46.  IX.  5,  15. 
III.  19.  VIII.  12.  We  announce  the  immediate 
abandonment  of  capitalism  ("the  desolation  of 
Jerusalem").  We  announce  the  passing  by  of 
the  old  "world"  or  government  or  city,  the  old 
Jerusalem,  capitalism,  the  world  of  ownership. 
And  when  you  shall  see  the  world  ("Jerusalem") 
compassed  with  armies  know  that  the  end  or 
abandonment  ("desolation")  thereof  is  near. 
Luke  XXI.  20.  We  terminate  ("fulfill")  the 
times  and  the  cruelty  of  the  gentiles  and  the 
treading  down  of  the  world  under  foot  by 
murderous  armies.  Luke  XXI.  24.  We  quell 
the  madness  and  quench  the  slaughter  of  men. 
We  heal  the  striker  and  the  stricken.  We  over- 
come the  wrath  and  the  wrangling  and  the 
wrong  among  the  people.  23.  We  cure  the 
perplexity  and  the  terror  of  men  and  we  relieve 
the  distress  of  nations.  We  take  away  fear 
and  failing  and  misgiving  and  anxiety  and 
despair  from  the  hearts  of  men.  Luke  XXI. 
23-26.  And  we  freely  and  abundantly  distribute 
the  water  and  the  blessings  of  life.    Mat.  X.  42. 


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Mark  IX.  41.  And  we  assure  all  men  of  the 
just,  glorious  and  good  times  that  shall  come 
and  glorify  man  (the  son  of  man)  and  freely 
fill  the  earth  with  abundant  good  things. 
Luke  XXI.  27,  28.  Luke  I.  51-54.  John  XIII. 
30-36.  Let  not  your  hearts  be  troubled.  Ac- 
tively glorify.  Help  forward  this  movement, 
this  world-wide  change  in  the  hearts  and  in 
the  a£Fairs  of  men.  Zealously  propagate  the 
divine  plant,  the  true  government.  Luke  XXI. 
34-36.  Mat.  XXIV.  42-51.  Mark  XIIL  20-27. 
Mat.  XV.  13.  Make  an  end  of  the  "times  of 
the  gentiles."  Luke  XXI.  24.  Welcome  the 
glory  eternal.  Prepare  for  the  universal  feast. 
"The  times  of  the  gentiles,"  capitalism,  is  now, 
A.  D.  1917.  nearly  ended.    Luke  XXI.  24. 

The  true  government,  the  truthful  govern- 
ment, the  natural  government,  the  normal 
government,  the  regular  government;  the  just, 
natural,  universal  and  happy  government,  and 
the  "Kingdom  of  God,"  are  but  several  names 
for  one  and  the  same  government.  There  shall 
be  no  compromise,  no  commerce  with  capitalism, 


20        THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

no  infidelity,  no  adultery.  You  cannot  serve 
God  and  serve  Mammon. 

We  command  direct  action,  rational,  logical, 
progressive,  cosmical  action,  action  that  does 
not  consult  the  prejudices  of  capitalists,  action 
that  proceeds  directly.  Proceed  directly  with  the 
work  of  advance.  You  cannot  serve  God  and 
the  devil.  You  cannot  cling  to  the  future  and 
to  the  past.  You  see  the  road  to  the  Great  City, 
the  City  of  the  True  Peace,  Zion,  the  heavenly 
city  on  earth.     Take  it.     John  XIV.  4-6. 

Primitive  quackery  and  archaic  superstition 
will  not  do  for  the  great  times.  Reject  Capital- 
ism and  all  its  mockery,  ownership  and  all  its 
evils,  the  devil  and  all  his  work.  Inaugurate  the 
great  times.  Do  the  great  things  to  be  done  by 
men.  The  true  government,  "the  Kingdom  of 
God";  solves  the  problem  of  employment,  in- 
sures the  righteousness  rightfulness  and  happi- 
ness of  all  mankind  and  excludes  the  indolence 
insolence  arrogance  cruelty  falsity  treachery 
thievery  murder  and  butchery  of  men. 

The  old   government  is   outgrown,   outworn 


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and  rotten.  Put  on  the  new  government,  the 
new  garment,  the  new  vesture,  the  seamless 
robe.  John  XIX.  22-24.   Mat.  XXVII.  35.  Luke 

XXIII.  34-37.  Put  it  on  and  it  shall  cover  the 
earth.  And  the  rotten  empire  of  ragged  patches 
shall  disappear.  The  map  of  capitalism  shall  be 
cast  into  the  garbage  gehenna.  The  law  of  God 
is  yours.  Take  it  and  put  it  on  and  it  shall  cover 
the  earth.  Mat.  XXII.  1-3.  XV.  9,  13.  14. 
Mark  VII.  7.  And  you  shall  see  the  restitution 
of  all  things,  the  establishment  of  the  divine  or 
universal  justice,  the  ineffable  illumination  of  the 
world.   Acts  III.  19-26. 

Occupy  the  new  house  (mansion)  (dwelling) 
already  built  for  you.  John  XIV.  1  -3.  Take  the 
place  prepared  for  you  from  the  foundation  of 
the  world.  John  XIV.  1-4.  XVII.  24.  Mat. 
XXV.  34.  And  as  for  Capitalism.  Luke  XXI. 
5-7.   Mat.  XXIV.  1 ,  2.    And  as  for  the  capitalist. 

XXIV.  50,  51.  And  before  Abraham  (Ham- 
murabi) was,  I  am.   John  VIII.  33-59. 

O  sons  of  God;  be  quick,  be  swift,  be  true; 
prevail  against  the  gates  of  hell  and  break  down 


22         THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

and  repeal  every  barrier  between  man  and  his 
true  inheritance.  Mat.  XXV.  34.  Frankly  fol- 
low the  comprehensive  world-wide,  just  and 
illustrious  plan.  Be  open,  avowed,  outspoken; 
doers  of  the  word.  We  demand  more  abundant 
life.  Overcome  the  capitalistic  domination.  John 
X.  10,  16. 

The  world's  afiFairs  are  near  a  crisis  and  men 
are  about  to  enter  upon  a  new  era  and  to  accept 
and  enter  into  a  new  world.  We  demand  the 
government  that  is  not  of  ownership,  not  of 
Mammon.  We  are  not  asking  for  government 
ownership,  for  we  understand  that  government 
ownership  of  a  few  things  means  no  ownership 
of  those  things  and  that  government  ownership 
of  all  things  means  no  ownership  of  any  of 
those  things.  So  therefore,  we  abandon  (the 
idea  of)  ownership.  We  take  the  true  and 
direct  way  and  we  direct  you  to  take  the  true 
way.  Mat.  VI.  24.  1  Tim.  VI.  7-21.  Gal.  I. 
3- 1 2.  We  have  taken  advanced  and  high  ground 
(Mat.  V.  1-20)  and  we  see  the  great  city  and 
we   command    the    preferent    use    of    any   and 


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of  all  things,  that  use  being  directed  to  the  gen- 
eral glory  advance  and  happiness  of  mankind, 
the  greatest  good  to  the  greatest  number  or 
simply  the  greatest  good.  A  half-reasoner  is  a 
mental  traitor,  a  traitor  to  the  mind,  a  political 
judas,  a  faller  by  the  wayside,  a  failure,  a  weak 
vessel.  And  to  half  reason  is  to  miscarry,  to 
fail  to  fulfill,  to  fail  to  deliver.  An  idea  or  con- 
ception should  be  followed  in  the  mind  to  its 
consequences  and  if  it  there  fail  in  its  results 
it  may  there  be  abandoned  or  rejected  or  damned 
before  it  is  attempted  and  time  saved  and  in- 
fliction avoided.  For  all  things  Eire  conceived 
somewhere  before  they  are  born,  even  Brooklyn 
Bridges  and  steam  engines  and  automobiles,  and 
as  we  theorize — even  the  universe  itself.  And 
the  human  mind  is  a  sort  of  womb  or  mould 
and  every  work  of  man  a  reproduction.  The 
farmer  is  not  the  producer,  he  is  a  product.  The 
producer  is  the  active  spirit  of  growth,  the  life. 
And  the  banking,  or  money  and  usury  busi- 
ness, shall  go  out  of  the  government  business. 
And  the  government  shall  go  out  of  the  banking 


24        THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

business.  And  the  government  shall  be  rid  of 
the  money  mania.  And  man  shall  be  rid  of  the 
ownership  atavism.  And  what  capitalists  call 
"credit"  is  debt  and  the  "credit  system"  is  the 
debt  system,  and  debt  shall  be  eliminated.  The 
debt  and  taxation  or  tribute  system  shall  go. 
Luke  XXIII.  2. 

In  December,  1  776,  Thomas  Paine,  to  whom 
be  praise  and  peace,  began  issuing  a  series  of 
tracts  called  "The  Crisis,"  and  in  January,  1776, 
had  published  his  first  political  pamphlet,  a 
pamphlet  of  great  influence  called  "Common 
Sense."  The  first  number  of  The  Crisis  began 
with  "These  are  the  times  that  try  men's  souls: 
the  summer  soldier  and  the  sunshine  patriot  will, 
in  this  crisis,  shrink  from  the  service  of  his  coun- 
try; but  he  that  stands  it  Now  deserves  the  love 
and  thanks  of  men  and  women."  The  world  is 
now  in  a  state  of  active  agitation,  transformation 
and  transition  and  is  about  to  hatch  out  of  the 
despotism  of  dollars  into  the  Commonwealth  of 
Commonsense.  You  will  not  hatch  cut  up  in 
pieces  but  will  hatch  entire.     And  we  call  you 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  25 

out  of  your  prison  and  into  your  greater  citizen- 
ship, your  greater  activity,  your  grander  world. 
And  we  call  you  to  your  greater  self.  We  call 
you  into  the  greater  life.  Luke  IV.  18,  19. 
John  X.  10.  And  in  it  you  cannot  serve  God 
and  Mammon.  And  to  serve  Mammon  is  to 
serve  ownership.  Those  times  tried  the  courage, 
honor,  intelligence,  invention  and  constancy  of 
men,  the  quality  of  their  souls ;  and  these  present 
times  prove  the  courage,  constancy,  honor,  in- 
telligence and  invention  of  men  and  try  the 
quality  of  men's  souls.  And  these  times  test  the 
power  of  prophecy.  And  the  great  things  we 
must  have  shall  come  to  us.  And  they  will 
come  to  us  as  we  come  to  them.  And  as  there 
are  great  things  to  be  done  and  a  great  work  to 
be  fulfilled,  we  now  mention  some  of  the  things 
or  facts  we  have  here  on  hand  or  in  our  stock 
store  or  treasury,  and  we  indicate  to  you  to  some 
extent  the  means  and  the  cost  and  the  benefit  of 
the  work.  Mat.  XIIL  52.  Luke  XIV.  28-35. 
Jas.  I.  22-25. 

Language   is,    generally   speaking,    a    greater 


26        THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

bond  among  men  than  race  or  blood.  And  a 
common  purpose,  a  common  religion  or  intent 
is  a  greater  bond  than  even  a  common  language. 
And  our  intent  is  to  establish  peace  on  earth, 
good-will  among  men,  universal  justice,  the 
"Kingdom  of  God."  And  "the  Kingdom  of 
God"  on  earth  is  the  great  government  of  Man. 
The  U.  S.  is  of  the  English  speaking  language 
or  civilization.  The  British  Empire,  taken  to- 
gether with  the  government  of  the  U.  S.  A., 
predominates  more  or  less  completely  over  one- 
third  of  the  landed  surface  of  the  globe  and  the 
English  language  is  more  generally  disseminated 
over  the  earth  than  any  other.  The  western 
hemisphere  contains  about  one-third  of  the 
landed  surface  of  the  earth.  Of  this  territory 
nearly  one-half  is  of  the  English  language ;  of  its 
population  much  more  than  one-half.  The  other 
half  is  occupied  by  our  friends,  for  we  are 
friendly  with  the  Latin  World  and  are  consider- 
ably latinized  and  much  identified  with  the  latin 
civilization.  And  we  are  the  glorious  blend  of 
many   races,   and  we   are   friends   of   the   true 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  27 

nobility  of  all  the  world.  And  all  Americans 
should  be  great  and  they  should  all  learn  good 
manners.  Let  us  make  secure  and  magnify  our 
peaceful  splendor.  And  we  are  specially  called 
upon  to  consider  the  glorification  of  the  New 
World.  Let  us  bring  blessings  to  all  our  Ameri- 
can sisters  and  to  all  the  world.  The  one  thing 
among  us  that  mars  our  true  friendship  with  the 
inhabitants  of  the  great  America  is  the  aggressive 
"wealth"  of  this  country  which  is  trying  to  force 
our  people  to  strike  Mexico  and  oppress  the 
peon.  It  demands  that  we  uphold  a  state  of 
affairs  that  in  Mexico  is  decadent  and  even  also 
among  ourselves.  We  proclaim  America  Libre 
and  Mexico  Free.  American  soldiery  in  any 
great  quantity  cannot  be  relied  upon  to  protect 
even  the  American  Capital  in  the  U.  S.,  much 
less  to  force  it  upon  any  other  country.  Our 
duty  is  to  help  Mexico.  We  had  better  dig 
ditches  and  build  dams  in  Mexico  than  dig 
trenches  and  build  forts.  We  had  better  send 
corn  to  Mexico  than  lead. 

Throughout  all  the  territory  of  America  (with 


28        THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

slight  exception)  there  are  three  great  languages, 
and  two  are  so  nearly  allied  as  almost  to  be 
dialects  of  the  same  language.  These  languages 
are  English,  Spanish  and  Portuguese.  French 
and  Dutch  are  spoken  on  the  mainland  in  French 
and  Dutch  Guiana,  and  also  somewhat  on  the 
islands,  and  French  somewhat  in  Canada,  etc. 
And  with  all  of  these  we  are  friends.  We  are  a 
world  power  and  in  our  way  we  are  engaged  in 
world  afFairs  and  it  becomes  us  to  face  world 
responsibility.  And  we  will  not  snivel  ourselves 
into  insignificance  and  out  of  our  true  position 
and  opportunity.  And  we  will  not  be  an 
over-burdened  and  top-heavy  Rome  for  active 
savagery  to  pillage.  Our  people  abandon  all  the 
phantasmagoria  and  illusion  of  Mammon  and 
eliminate  all  of  its  insanity  and  all  of  its  fears 
and  horrors.  As  a  matter  of  national  policy  our 
young  people  should  diligently  learn  either  the 
Spanish  or  Portuguese  language,  or  both,  and 
should  correspondingly  cultivate  friendship  with 
the  people  and  endeavor  to  bring  all  of  them  free- 
dom, knowledge  and  happiness  and  all  the  good 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  29 

things  of  this  world.  And  societies  to  this  end 
should  be  formed  throughout  America.  And 
every  American  who  enters  those  countries 
should  be  a  messenger  of  good-will.  And  let 
people  who  are  non-grata  stay  out  of  any  coun- 
try. And  let  not  their  governments  use  threats, 
nor  force,  nor  fraud  to  force  them  into  it.  And  it 
is  a  policy  repugnant  to  true  Americanism  to  at- 
tempt to  impose  oppression  and  tyranny  or  any 
of  the  darkness  of  the  worship  of  the  past  over 
it.  And  the  rule  of  dollar  diplomacy  is  hereby 
repudiated.  The  law  of  blood  and  steel  is  hereby 
annihilated.  And  the  land-owning  invader  is 
hereby  quelled  and  ousted.  Woman  suffrage 
will  obtain  throughout  the  enlightened  world. 
It  becomes  our  women  to  enthusiastically  learn 
Spanish  or  Portuguese  or  both  and  to  make 
themselves  friendly  with  the  women  of  Latin 
America  and  respected  for  goodness,  nobility, 
kindness  and  intelligence  and  all  of  those  quali- 
ties of  a  true  woman  that  impel  all  the  world  to 
call  her  blessed.  Luke  I.  45-48.  And  there  is  a 
great  work  of  Peace  for  all  American  women  to 


30         THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

do  and  our  women  may  learn  from  the  women 
of  Latin  America,  and  they  from  ours.  And  let 
them  all  be  commonly  welcome  as  gracious 
guests  and  pleasant  teachers.  And  they  may  go 
and  come  and  travel  on  all  the  highways  and 
byways  and  settle  wherever  it  may  be  willed. 
And  may  they  invariably  add  to  the  comfort, 
joy,  light,  intelligence  and  happiness  of  the  peo- 
ple among  whom  they  settle  and  of  the  world. 
And  glories  shall  rise  and  splendors  shall  shine. 
And  the  caste  distinction  against  the  original 
native  American  should  entirely  disappear.  And 
the  goodness  and  kindness  of  the  Latin  Ameri- 
can has  not  heretofore  been  given  the  promi- 
nence that  it  deserves.  And  as  to  the  true 
American  citizen,  it  becomes  us  all  to  atone  as 
far  as  we  can  for  the  crimes  that  we  have  com- 
mitted against  the  American  Indian  in  the 
Republic  of  the  U.  S.  by  bringing  benefits  and 
true  freedom  to  him,  both  here  and  in  all 
America.  And  those  crimes  were  generally 
committed  by  us  in  another  day  and  we  would 
not  commit  them  now.     And  the  wickedness  of 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  31 

those  days  we  would  overcome.  The  English 
civilization  is  in  good  standing  with  the  Latin 
civilization  and  also  with  the  Slavic.  And  more 
than  half  of  Europe  and  also  a  large  part  of 
Asia  is  under  the  Slavic  predominance  and  with 
it  we  are  friends  and  will  always  stay  friends. 
And  all  Germany  is  cooperating  in  war  and  has 
only  ownership  to  abolish  to  unite  in  the  true 
peace.  And  we  are  friends  with  the  true  Ger- 
many. And  we  and  all  the  world  shall  forever 
tell  of  the  glory  of  her  prowess,  her  discoveries 
and  her  achievements.  And  faithfully  let  us 
remember.  Nearly  all  of  Africa  is  French,  Eng- 
lish, Belgian,  Portuguese  and  Italian.  And  what 
of  it  shall  remain  German  we  shall  be  told  at 
the  ending  of  this  war  of  the  ending  of  the 
times  of  the  gentiles,  the  war  of  the  universal 
emancipation,  the  war  of  the  downfall  of  capital, 
and  the  war  of  the  ending  of  capitalism.  Luke 
XXI.  24.  And  there  will  be  peace  in  Africa 
and  the  borders  there  as  clear  of  menace  as  the 
line  between  us  and  Canada.  And  Australia 
with  its  glorious  sister  isles  is  unstained  by  blood 


32         THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

and  filled  with  light,  joy,  promise  and  progress, 
and  together  they  shall  advance.  And  see  the 
splendid  future  prep>ared  for  them.  See  the  great 
microcosm  of  the  South  Seas.  Asia  shall  flourish 
and  the  light  shall  shine.  Times  change.  Men's 
messages  girdle  the  earth  in  less  than  forty 
minutes.  Submersible  freighters  swim  from 
Bremen  to  New  York.  Aeroplanes  fly  from 
New  York  to  San  Francisco.  And  to  every  man 
every  man  shall  be  a  neighbor.  Luke  X.  29-37. 
And  much  that  was  considered  good  statesman- 
ship fifty  years  ago  is  known  not  to  be  good 
statesmanship  now.  And  who  is  neighbor  to 
him  who  has  fallen  among  thieves?  Luke  X. 
3-37.  XVII.  And  men  run  to  and  fro  and 
knowledge  is  increased.  Dan.  XII.  4.  And 
secrecy  and  mystery  shall  no  longer  be  business. 
And  the  empire  of  money  shall  be  no  more. 
And  evil  deeds  love  capitalism  and  capitalism 
shall  be  dispelled.  And  evil  deeds  shall  be  no 
more.  And  all  shall  be  revealed  and  nothing 
hidden.  Mat.  X.  26.  Luke  XII.  2.  We  are 
getting  into  a  world  of  light,  or  rather  we  are 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  33 

beginning  to  see — the  great  world,  the  Kingdom 
of  God.  We  have  wireless  telegraphy  and  a 
thousand  things  not  known  a  few^  years  ago. 
And  more  transcendent  discoveries  and  fulfill- 
ments have  been  made  in  the  last  25  years 
of  man's  existence  than  in  the  previous  2500 
years  and  more  in  the  last  50  years  than  in 
all  his  previous  existence.  And  the  state  of 
affairs  has  come  to  where  capitalism  cannot  hold 
and  we  naturally  burst  through  capitalism  and 
break  out  of  the  world  of  ownership.  And  we 
free  man  of  debt  and  raze  the  prison.  The  God 
of  Murder  is  bleeding  to  death  in  Europe  and 
there  will  in  due  time  be  a  cessation  of  this 
dreadful  war.  And  in  all  America  we  have, 
comparatively  speaking,  peace.  And  the  Stars 
and  Stripes  is  the  emblem  of  true  freedom.  And 
the  true  American  is  ever  just  and  humane  and 
noble.  And  the  true  sons  of  the  land  of  the 
free  bring  joy  to  every  nook  in  the  mountains 
and  to  every  home  on  the  plains.  There  will  be 
a  reckoning  among  nations.  The  British  Empire 
is  financially  bankrupt  and  as  a  consequence  of 


34        THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

this,  its  enemies  expect  it  to  disrupt.  Herein 
they  are  mistaken,  for  Britain's  faithful  sons  toil 
upward,  and  will  reach  the  light  of  the  full  day. 
And  the  lion  and  all  the  lion's  whelps  shall  live. 
And  the  sceptre  shall  not  depart  from  Judah 
nor  a  law-giver  from  under  his  feet  until  Peace 
(Shiloh)  come,  and  under  it  shall  all  the  nations 
of  the  earth  gather  into  one.  Gen.  XLIX.  10. 
And  capital  is  the  power  of  ownership,  the 
money  power.  There  will  be  a  reckoning  among 
the  nations  of  Europe  and  at  least  four  will 
make  some  sort  of  an  agreement  and  probably 
a  permanent  peace  alliance.  They  have  terri- 
tories from  the  frigid  zone,  extending  across  the 
tropics.  And  also  so  have  our  friendly  nations 
of  America.  And  with  capital  out  we  could 
now  commune  a  glorious  welfare.  And  the 
Congo  can  go  to  Cape  Town  and  to  Nova 
Zembla  and  the  Amazon  to  Nome  and  to  Tierra 
del  Fuego  and  vice  versa.  And  we  can  easily 
cross  East  and  West.  And  the  natural  lines  of 
the  world's  distribution  are  N.  and  S.  fully  as 
much  as  E.  and  W.     We  are  showing  you  a 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  35 

few  facts  of  a  treasury  or  store  of  facts.  Mat. 
XIII.  52.  Luke  XIV.  28-35.  And  standing 
stark  and  staring  before  us  is  the  gaunt,  pallid, 
enslaved  and  suffering  working  world  with  a 
prodigious  monetary  debt  upon  it,  which,  ac- 
cording to  the  conditions  of  capitalism,  it  can 
never  in  all  eternity  pay.  And  Europe  is  assessed 
to  pay  in  these  days  about  1917a  tax  of  more 
than  ten  million  young  males  and  the  suffering 
of  women  not  counted.  And  in  capitalism  the 
heavy  tax  upon  life  never  ceases.  And  the 
gnawing  of  the  worm  never  ends.  And  the 
smoke  of  torment  ever  ascends.  And  the  high 
cost  of  living  ever  increases.  Rev.  XIV.  1 1 . 
Mark  IX.  44.   Is.  LXVI.  24. 

Now  Capitalism  offers  no  pleasant  nor  true 
solution  for  this  apparently  appalling  state  of 
affairs.  Capitalism  is,  or  the  (constituency  of 
the)  money  power  or  capitalistic  world  is,  of  the 
opinion  that  a  solution  of  this  will  be  forthcom- 
ing from  its  chiefs,  or  from  its  chief  experts  or 
"financiers"  economists  or  "scribes"  or  spokes- 
men or  prophets.     And  it  is  of  the  opinion  that 


36        THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

the  world  of  bayonets  and  of  bombs  will  acqui- 
esce in  or  will  agree  to  that  solution,  will  be 
bribed  to  uphold  it.  And  of  course  it  expects  its 
own  line  of  judges  to  stand  by  that  law  and  by 
those  prophets.  Financial  chief  experts  or  priests 
or  economists  consider  themselves  to  be  exceed- 
ingly practical,  but  their  practical  methods  in- 
clude the  monetary  bondage  of  the  world  and 
the  deluge  of  blood  in  Europe  and  the  blood  of 
true  prophets  and  saints  and  of  all  that  have 
been  murdered  upon  earth.  Rev.  XVIII.  23,  24. 
Mammonists  are  being  discredited  as  rulers,  and 
as  philosophers  financiers  are  known  to  be 
failures.  And  as  philanthropists  they  are  known 
to  be  hypocrites.  Mat.  XXII.  10.  XXIII.  1-39. 
And  they  desire  more  protection  and  of  pro- 
tection they  have  already  had  too  much.  And 
the  protection  they  demand  is  that  they  shall  be 
protected  in  their  practice  of  taxing  the  people. 
They  demand  protection  to  tribute  unto  Caesar. 
And  they  call  this  a  "right."  They  demand  that 
the  body  public  shall  cherish  a  wealth  of  dis- 
gusting   and    enfeebling    parasites.       And    for 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  37 

opposing  or  forbidding  this  the  Christ  was  cruci- 
fied; but  this  was  some  time  ago.  Luke  XXIIL  2. 
We  forbid  it  now  and  do  not  expect  to  be  even 
imprisoned,  for  these  are  not  Caesar's  times. 
And  we  declare  the  world  to  be  no  longer  under 
Caesar's  lance;  i.  e.,  sub  hasta  publica;  i.  e.,  for 
sale  (at  public  auction).  The  plan  of  the 
financiers  of  the  world  is  to  starve  progress  in 
order  to  fatten  "wealth." 

Under  their  plan  hordes  of  men  and  women, 
both  opulent  and  indigent,  loaf  while  other  such 
hordes  engage  in  pernicious  employments  such 
as  organized  murder,  and  organized  social  osten- 
tation and  organized  public  pillage  or  taxation 
or  publicanism.  Mat.  IX.  10-13.  And  Capital 
fattens  and  its  princes  and  taxers  batten.  And 
a  world  writhes  in  pain  while  hireling  souls, 
servants  of  hell,  Mammonists  and  hypocrites 
preach  more  subservience  and  invite  more  retri- 
bution. Deut.  XXXII.  35.  Rom.  XII.  19.  Heb. 
X.  28-3  L  Luke  XXI.  22.  Mat.  XXIV.  22. 
Mark  XIII.  20.  And  great  Capitalistic  "business 
men,"  "economists,"  "statesmen,"  "financiers," 


38        THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

etc.,  weirn  us  Americans  and  tell  us  that  at  the 
close  of  this  war  of  Armageddon  we  are  to  suffer 
from  a  great  "commercial  assault,"  and  they  call 
upon  us  to  bear  up  against  this  with  becoming 
fortitude.  Rev.  XVI.  16.  They  counsel  us  to 
prepare  for  this  new  demand.  And  we  believe 
in  preparedness.  And  we  are  prepared  against 
them  and  against  this  assault.  Pressed  by  com- 
mercial fiends  Elast  and  West  w^e  will  triumph 
over  them  all.  And  we  will  not  sell  our  birth- 
right— nor  buy  it.  We  will  take  what  is  ours 
and  give  Caesar's  unto  Caesar.  Caesar's  is 
nothing.  And  we  w^ill  maintain  and  sustain  the 
honor  of  the  U.  S.  of  America  and  the  glory 
of  the  spirit  of  freedom  justice  honor  and  truth 
in  every  land  and  on  every  sea  throughout  the 
world.  And  if  it  must  be,  our  swift  sword  shall 
flame.  And  it  is  foreign  to  dismay  and  it 
knoweth  not  fear.  We  shrink  from  no  true  re- 
sponsibility and  we  shirk  no  true  duty.  And  if 
force  be  necessary  then  with  force  will  we  be 
there.  We  are  guided  by  the  light  of  Liberty, 
and  we  serve  the  soul  of  honor;   the  spirit  of 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  39 

truth.  John  XVI.  13.  Mat.  X.  32-42.  Luke 
XXII.  36-38.  We  have  the  courage  of  the  spirit 
which  is  without  fear  and  we  have  the  soul 
which  proceedeth  directly  from  the  great  soul. 
We  have  the  soul  of  magnanimity.  I  John  IV. 
We  proceed  without  deviation.  We  act  directly. 
Hear  ye. 

Capitalists  think  that  the  industries  of  the 
world  cannot  be  carried  on  without  money  nor 
the  civilization  without  ownership.  And  it  is 
true  that  they  cannot  in  capitalism.  But  we  are 
not  in  capitalism,  we  have  not  that  mind.  I  Cor. 
II.  9-16.  We  have  gone  out  of  capitalism.  And 
all  the  world  shall  go  out  of  it  and  become  one 
with  us.  And  upon  ourselves  we  take  the  re- 
sponsibility of  the  world's  affairs  and  all  that  this 
implies.   Mat.  XXIV.  44-47.  Luke  XXI.  33-38. 

We  will  abundantly  feed,  clothe,  shelter,  edu- 
cate, house,  and  encourage  the  people  and  we 
will  do  it  in  the  truly  economical  way.  And  we 
do  not  consult  the  money  power.  We  demand 
more  abundant  life.  John  X.  10.  And  the 
legend,   "In  God  we  trust,"   on  the  American 


40        THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

Double  Elagle  shall  become  true,  and  the  coin  a 
beautiful  medallion  in  a  world  without  commerce 
and  without  ownership.  It  will  some  time  be 
shown  as  a  piece  of  excellent  w^orkmanship 
executed  in  generally  benighted  times.  And 
Americans  will  be  pleased  to  remember  that  it  is 
the  most  beautiful  coin  of  all  those  antiques  and 
that  the  goddess  of  liberty  is  elegantly  engraved 
upon  it  and  also  the  legend,  "In  God  we 
trust.*'  And  upon  it  nothing  is  said  of  Mammon, 
the  God  of  Money,  the  devil.  The  U.  S.  shall 
live  and  Mammon  and  Commerce  shall  die.  We 
demand  more  abundant  life.  John  X.  10.  TTie 
people  are  w^eary  of  the  cant  of  the  "economists" 
of  baalism  and  sick  of  their  endless  bosh.  The 
patter  of  its  "business  men"  sickens  the  souls  of 
men.  And  merchants  and  salesmen  shall  be 
swept  off  the  boards  and  commerce  out  of  the 
chambers.  Mark  XI.  14,  15-20.  John  II.  1-1 1, 
13-17.  The  high  cost  of  living  increases.  We 
demand  better  wine  and  greater  power.  John  II. 
10,  13-16.  We  demand  more  abundant  life. 
John  X.    10.     Economic  troubles  acceleratedly 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  41 

accumulate  and  the  remedies  of  financiers  in- 
crease the  disease  of  the  world.  Perhaps  even 
doctors  are  not  to  be  blamed  for  what  they  do 
not  know.  But  they  should  not  expect  to  be 
admired  for  their  ignorance,  nor  demand  to  be 
retained  because  of  their  incompetence.  We 
presume  that  any  truly  honest  man  is  courageous 
enough  to  face  a  situation  and  to  look  an  argu- 
ment square  in  the  face.  Now  when  the  reckon- 
ing of  the  world's  affairs  and  accounts  is  brought 
up  for  consideration  at  the  close  of  the  war — 
any  truly  honest  man  can  plainly  see  that  there 
is  only  one  truly  honest  salvation,  viz.:  the  im- 
mediate and  open  repudiation  of  all  national 
debts.  Now,  let  no  man  who  holds  any  mort- 
gage of  any  kind  upon  the  face  of  the  earth, 
make  the  mistake  of  supposing  that  it  does  not 
also  follow,  for  it  does.  And  we  also  announce 
that  the  nullification  of  the  security  for  mort- 
gages, viz.:  ownership,  also  takes  place.  And 
the  empire  of  money  falls.  Now  then,  states- 
men may  ask,  what  does  this  new  state  of  affairs 
propose  to  do  and  what  has  it  to  offer  to  the 


42        THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

industry  of  the  world,  for  the  world's  work  is 
done  by  men  and  not  by  money?  We  answer 
that  we  will  give  steady  and  noble  employment 
to  every  man  and  every  woman  and  surround 
him  with  infinitely  better  conditions  than  he  ever 
had  before.  And  we  will  give  him  an  absolutely 
safe  and  free  life  insurance,  and  a  calm,  hopeful 
and  active  and  honest  heart;  and  peace  and 
care  for  all  the  days  of  his  old  age,  and  in  fact 
for  all  the  days  of  his  life.  And  we  will  protect 
him  from  violence.  And  we  will  give  him 
abounding  life  and  true  pride  and  settle  him  in 
a  land  of  beauty,  honor,  justice,  Mercy  and 
truth.  Mat.  XII.  7.  And  this  is  infinitely  more 
than  it  is  possible  for  Capitalism  to  ever  do. 
Luke  XXI.  15.  XVIII.  29-30.  Mat.  XIX.  23-30. 
Luke  XIII.  29-30.  We  hold  these  things  in 
honor  but  Capitalism  sneers  at  these  things  and 
its  "practical  business"  knows  them  not,  knows 
not  of  them.  We  do  not  tell  any  man  that  he 
will  not  have  to  work  nor  that  he  will  only  have 
an  hour's  work  or  two  hours'  work  a  day,  but 
we  do  say  that  all  men  should  be  at  work  of 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  43 

some  kind  in  rational  life  or  should  be  living 
rationally  and  constructively,  or  be  rationally 
and  constructively  employed  during  the  whole 
period  of  their  natural  potency  or  of  their  lives, 
and  this  by  no  means  excludes  due  rest  and 
preparation  and  recreation  but  approves  of  it 
and  the  joy  of  good  men  is  in  good  work  well 
done.  And  men  put  their  hearts  into  their 
work.  And  we  believe  in  fair  play  and  in  proper 
active  healthful  system.  And  out  of  the  fulness 
of  the  heart  the  hand  worketh.  Mat.  XII.  34,  35. 
Luke  VI.  45.  And  moreover  we  will  work  men 
not  unto  death  but  we  will  work  them  unto  life 
eternal.  And  the  world  of  debt  has  passed 
away.  And  teixation  is  over.  And  the  world's 
debts  have  ceased  from  troubling  and  are  buried 
in  the  past  and  the  worry  of  that  is  over.  We 
are  tired  of  capitalists  railing  at  the  idleness  of 
the  propertyless,  and  at  the  poor  devils  out  of  a 
job  they  cannot  get  and  that  capitalists  do  not 
give.  And  we  despise  what  capitalists  call  "suc- 
cess." We  despise  their  ideal.  And  we  scorn 
those  men  whom  capitalists  call  "good  business 


44         THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

men" ;  brood  of  vipers,  sons  of  hell.  Mat.  XXIII. 
15,  33.  Capitalism,  the  combination  of  or- 
ganized loaferism,  and  the  hold  of  cruelty 
negation  and  crime  shall  now  die.  Rev.  XVIII. 
2,  24.  We  pronounce  the  doom  of  capitalism. 
The  incident  of  its  existence  on  earth  is  closed. 
The  end  of  the  day  of  ownership  is  now  near. 
(1917).  Man,  and  every  man,  must  be  in  some 
servitude,  some  condition  of  mind  or  condition  in 
life,  some  kind  of  activity,  and  if  he  does  any- 
thing he  must  be  employed  at  or  occupied  in 
something,  and  successful  employment  is  the 
pride  satisfaction  and  enjoyment  of  the  life  and 
success  means  the  true  progress  of  man  and 
inures  to  his  true  happiness.  We  demand  more 
abundant  life.  John  X.  1 0.  And  we  promise  to 
every  true  worker,  successful  employment.  And 
to  love  and  aspire  is  never  to  lose.  And  we 
institute  a  new  method  or  system  of  housekeep- 
ing, a  new  economy.  John  XIII.  34,  35.  Owner- 
ship is  the  enemy  of  invention  and  the  opponent 
of  true  accomplishment.  And  it  sits  at  the 
receipt  of  custom  or  tax  and  opposes  the  true 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  45 

advance  of  man.  Chattel  slavery  is  publicly  or 
ostensibly  abrogated  and  now  we  abrogate  wage- 
slavery.  We  let  the  world  truly  move.  We  in- 
stitute the  logical  method  of  housekeeping,  the 
true  economy.  Wage  slavery  is  a  necessary 
condition  of  capitalism,  the  state  of  a£Fairs  based 
on  ownership;  and  we  abolish  ownership.  We 
demand  better  conditions.  We  do  not  demand 
higher  wages  in  order  that  rents  and  the  price  of 
land  and  material  may  rise,  taxation  intensify, 
the  difficulty  of  living  increase;  and  distribution 
be  strained,  straitened,  difficult,  inequitable,  un- 
satisfactory, inefficient,  sordid  and  iniquitous. 
Remove  all  obstruction  to  better  conditions  and 
they  will  rapidly  come  in  of  themselves.  Be  ye 
doers  of  the  word,  the  will.  Jas.  I.  22.  Mark 
III.  35.  We  demand  better  conditions  and  show 
you  how  to  obtain  them  and  by  the  God  of  Life 
and  Light  we  adjure  you  to  assist  in  obtaining 
them. 

Capitalism  is  opposed  to  the  great  freedom 
and  we  break  capitalism  down  and  remove  it 
and  it  shall  no  more  encumber  the  souls  of  men 


46        THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

nor  darken  their  lives.  The  work  of  the  world 
will  be  well  and  happily  done  when  capitalism, 
the  belief  in  ownership,  the  spirit  of  Mammon, 
the  devil,  can  no  more  prevent.  And  the  new 
economy  will  be  quickly  adjusted  and  will 
smoothly  run.  The  new  plan  is  simple,  effec- 
tive and  logical.  And  the  team  work,  the  logi- 
cal and  temporal  cooperation;  is  easy  and  all- 
consistent,  and  nearly  all  men  will  naturally 
quickly  find  their  true  places,  especially  if  they 
be  somewhat  lighted.  And  you  will  be  sur- 
prised to  know  with  how  little  wisdom  capital- 
ists were  governed  and  with  what  little  they 
governed.  We  have  the  workmen  and  the 
tools,  and  the  earth  is  free,  and  the  fulness,  the 
product  thereof,  is  free;  and  all  shall  be  used 
for  the  glory  of  God  and  the  happiness  of  man. 
And  we  do  not  desire  a  superfluous  and  exces- 
sive and  crowded  population  of  the  earth,  but  a 
free  and  noble  one.  We  desire  more  fun  and 
fewer  fools.  We  demand  a  more  practical 
world,  a  world  of  greater  deeds.  We  induce 
free  inspiration  and  noble  expression.     We  de- 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  47 

mand  the  free  sway  of  the  spirit  of  Truth  with 
all  its  splendid  consequences.  We  ask  of  God 
the  glorious  manhood  and  the  perfect  world. 
And  let  all  men  know  that  the  free  diffusion  of 
the  blessing  of  God  is  right.  The  abolition  of 
ownership  and  the  concomitant  abandonment  of 
Capitalism,  the  monetary,  commercial  and  wage 
slave  system,  is  the  only  thing  that  can  be 
(truly)  (safely)  done,  and  we  command  you  to 
do  it  quickly.  John  XIII.  27.  Commercialism 
goes  into  the  night.  XIII.  31.  Mat.  XIX. 
24-30.    Luke  IV.  5-8.    Mat.  IV.  8-11. 

You  will  hatch  or  be  born  into  the  world  of 
abundant  life,  of  superior  intelligence,  of  new 
freedom  of  grand  opportunity,  and  of  glorious 
light.  John  X.  10.  Let  the  capitalist  worry 
about  your  broken  shell.  Its  time  is  past  and 
its  day  no  more.  And  you  will  absolutely  aban- 
don your  old  capitalistic  shell  and  it  will  no 
longer  surround  any  part  of  you.  And  the  king- 
dom of  God  is  for  power  and  glory  and  beauty 
and  happiness  beyond  all  that  has  ever  yet  been 
seen  by  men  on  earth.     I  Cor.  II.  9.     And  if 


48        THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

man  can  offer  up  a  continuous  bitter  and  dolor- 
ous sacrifice  in  the  spirit  of  murder  and  for  the 
god  of  property  and  of  death  he  can  better  per- 
form a  sweet  and  joyful  duty  devotion  or  obla- 
tion in  the  spirit  of  truth  and  for  the  God  of 
Life  and  of  Eternal  and  Universal  Peace.  Capi- 
talistic nations  are  murderers,  thieves  and  assas- 
sins and  they  shall  be  done  to  the  death.  As 
Capitalism  measures  so  shall  she  be  measured 
unto.  And  even  double  perhaps.  Rev.  XVIII. 
6.  They  that  govern  by  the  sword  by  the  sword 
shall  they  perish.  Mat.  XXVI.  52,  53.  Rev. 
XIX.  9,  10.  And  if  for  the  defense  of  the  na- 
tion and  in  order  to  carry  on  war,  everything 
in  a  country  can  be  temporarily  commandeered, 
as  in  the  countries  of  warring  Europe,  so  we 
can  and  will  and  by  the  power  of  the  spirit  we 
now  do,  permanently  commandeer  everything  in 
this  country  in  order  to  carry  on  the  permanent 
peace  and  to  save  the  world.  And  for  this  we 
strike. 

And  now  you  know  of  the  things  that  belong 
to  your  peace.    Mat.  XIII.  52.     Luke  XIV.  28- 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  49 

35.  Luke  XIX.  37-42.  John  XIV.  1-3,  27-29. 
XVI.  33.  And  domination  by  the  gentiles 
ends,  and  Babylon,  which  is  Capitalism,  the  do- 
minion of  the  gentiles,  falls.  Luke  XXI.  24. 
Rev.  XVII.  I,  5,  15,  18.  XVIII.  1-24.  And 
the  world  is  saved  and  the  Lord  God  omnipotent 
reigns.  XIX.  XX.  And  the  new  Jerusalem  the 
heavenly  Zion,  appears.  XXI.  XXII.  Mat.  XX. 
25-34. 

We  appoint  unto  you  a  continuous  year  of 
Jubilee.  Ps.  CII.  27;  Lev.  XXV.  55,  42. 
XXVI.  13-46;  Is.  LXI.  1,2;  Luke  IV.  18,  19. 

We  assert  the  will  of  God.  Mat.  VI.  10. 
Luke  X.  1,2. 

We  declare  the  unity  (freedom)  of  God  and 
(the  freedom  of)  man. 

We  ordain  the  true  freedom  of  man  and 
magnify  the  freedom  of  God.  Luke  I.  46.  We 
advance  in  accord  with  the  music  of  the  spheres, 
the  harmony  of  nature. 

We  herald  the  coming  with  power  of  the 
Son  of  Man,  the  true  believer,  the  true  citizen, 


50         THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

the  citizen  of  the  true  government,  the  citizen 
of  the  city  of  God.  Mat.  XX.  XXIV.  27.  39. 
42-51;  XXV.  13;  XXVI.  64.  Mark  XIII.  34- 
36;  XIV.  62.    Luke  XXI.  36.  John  I.  5L 

We  nullify  the  money  power.  We  end  the 
mortgage  blockade.  We  raise  the  ownership 
embargo.     We  free  the  world's  industry. 

We  open  the  door  of  knowledge  and  invite 
you  to  freely  enter  into  the  glorious  world  of 
free  invention,  free  expression  and  free  ad- 
vance. Luke  XI.  52.    Mat.  XXIII.  13. 

We  abrogate  the  institution  of  property  and 
free  you  from  its  clutches.  We  deliver  you 
from  all  of  its  debts  and  from  all  of  its  bond- 
age. Mat.  IV.  8-11.    Luke  IV.  5-8,  18,  19. 

We  proclaim  the  true  freedom  over  all  the 
lands  and  seas.  They  shall  be  cultivated  in  the 
glory  benign  and  they  shall  be  harvested  in  the 
grandeur  comprehensive. 

We  free  you  from  all  financial  debts,  bonds, 
embarrassments,  obligations  and  entanglements. 
We  pronounce  the  free  establishment  of  the 
Kingdom  of  God. 


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We  absolve  you  from  all  allegiance  to  the 
money  power,  the  spirit  of  evil,  the  devil.  And 
to  grant  this  absolution  we  have  plenary  power. 
Mat.  IV.  10.  Luke  IV.  8.  Heb.  VII.  3,  14-17, 
28;  XI.  12-16.  Mat.  VI.  24,  27-33.  The 
evil  thereof  was  appropriate  unto  its  day. 

We  break  down  the  empire  of  ownership  and 
you  shall  not  serve  Mammon  (riches,  "wealth"). 
Mat.  VI.  24.  Luke  XVI.  9,  13.  You  shall 
serve  the  Lord  your  God  and  him  only  shall 
you  serve.     Mat.  IV.  10.     Luke  IV.  8. 

We  celebrate  a  new  day.  Rev.  XXI.  1-4. 
And  we  joyfully  welcome  a  new  world.  Rev. 
XXI.  5;  XXI.  6-11,  22-27;  XXII.  1-9.  John 
XIII.  34. 

We  preach  to  all  the  world  and  command  all 
nations  to  support  this  gospel  of  the  kingdom. 
Mat.  XXIV.  14. 


CHAPTER  11. 

Capitalism  is  the  name  of  the  system,  of  (hu- 
man) a£Fairs  in  which  ownership  is  practiced. 

"As  man  thinketh  in  his  heart,"  or  believeth, 
"so  is  he,"  so  manifesteth  he. 

In  this  book  the  "ism"  or  belief  that  owner- 
ship is  right  is  called  capitalism  and  anyone 
who  holds  to  it  is  called  a  capitalist.  He  is  of 
the  (world)  (house)  (temple)  (creed)  (city) 
(state  of  belief)  called  capitalism.  The  belief  in 
ownership  is  called  capitalism  and  the  state  of 
(human)  affairs  under  that  belief  is  also  called 
capitalism.  The  one  is  the  belief,  the  other,  the 
action  or  state  of  affairs  in  or  under  the  belief. 
The  Christ  called  capitalism  "the  world"  and 
"this  world."  Capitalism  is  the  unjust  world, 
John  XVII.  16,  the  world  of  tribulation,  XVI. 
33,  the  low  world,  the  world  of  Mammon,  mur- 
der, debt,  sin  and  low-mindedness,  the  world  of 
which  the  Christ  is  not.  XIII.  23.  He  ad^ 
dresses  it  as  "thou  that  killest  the  prophets." 
Mat.  XXIII.  37.    And  Jesus  departed  from  this 


54         THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

world  (temple)  (state)  and  said  that  there 
shall  not  be  left  here  one  stone  (law)  of  it  upon 
another  that  shall  not  be  thrown  down  (re- 
pealed). XXIV.  1.  2.  14.  23,  25.  27.  39,  42-51. 

Capitalism  is  the  name  of  the  state  or  system 
of  (human)  affairs  in  which  ownership  is  prac- 
ticed. The  command  or  power  given  (by  men) 
to  ownership  is  the  "Money  Power,"  and  is  the 
power  of  money. 

In  this  book  the  word  "value"  means  the 
value  expressed  by  money,  commercial  value. 
The  word  value  is  from  the  Latin  verb  valere, 
to  be  strong. 

Commerce  is  the  interchange  of  ownership. 

Value  points  to  or  indicates  (the  power  or 
strength  of)  ownership. 

The  strength  of  ownership  (value)  is  ex- 
pressed quantitatively  by  means  of  the  (value) 
strength  of  the  ownership  of  the  moneteiry  unit. 

This  (quantity  of  the)  strength  of  ownership 
is  called  1  ;  is  specified  as  1 .  In  the  U.  S. 
the  monetary  unit  is  the   (gold)    dollar.     And 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  55 

the  strength  of  its  ownership  is  called   1.     Its 
(specific)  value  is  I . 

Ownership  is  in  negation  to  the  true  or  just 
use  of  the  earth,  in  opposition  to  the  true  prog- 
ress, the  true  freedom,  the  will,  of  God,  the 
natural  or  divine  evolution  of  mankind.  It  is  in 
the  denial  of  God,  the  repression  of  Man.  It  is 
in  lack  of  the  Intelligence  It  is  without  The  In- 
telligence, "without  the  holy  city."  Rev.  XXI 
and  XXII. 

The  ownership  of  a  monetary  unit  is  the  com- 
mon unit  of  measure  of  the  obstruction,  owner- 
ship, and  is  called  the  unit  of  value.  Ownership 
is  obstruction  to  the  natural  plan,  the  will  of 
God,  and  to  the  true  advance  of  man,  and  con- 
tinuously brings  to  man  unhappiness  and  suf- 
fering, (It  is  an  adversity  to  the  true  power.) 
It  is  a  damming  up  of  the  true  current.  Owner- 
ship is  negative  (of  true  progress)  (of  true 
power).  And  the  practice  of  ownership  brings 
to  the  human  race  adversity,  the  lack  of  pros- 
perity.    Vengeance  is  mine  and  I  pay  as  I  go. 


56         THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

Deut.  XXXII.  35.   Ps.  XCIV.  I.   Rom.  XII.  19. 
Heb.  30-39. 

In  this  book  the  word  commodity  means 
strictly  merchandbe  dealt  in  by  weight.  This  is 
done  for  precision  and  to  facilitate  discussion 
concerning  the  commodity,  money.  Money  is  a 
commodity. 

Labor  is  not  a  commodity.  The  surface  of 
the  earth  is  not  a  commodity.  The  soul  of  a 
man  is  not  a  commodity.     Rev.  XVIII.  1 3. 

When  the  ownership  of  a  definite  weight  of  a 
definite  commodity  is  accepted  as  having  the 
value  1 ,  then  this  definite  weight  of  this  definite 
commodity  is  the  monetary  unit  and  its  value  is 
the  unit  of  value  and  the  commodity  is  money. 

The  curse  of  ownership  shall  be  lifted  from 
the  earth  and  money  shall  not  be  (money). 

In  the  United  States  the  dollar,  or  25.8  grains 
of  United  States  gold  coin,  is  the  monetary  unit 
and  its  value  is  the  unit  of  value  and  United 
States  gold  coin  is  the  money.  That  definite 
weight  of  25.8  grains  is  considered  and  counted 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  57 

as  1  and  its  value  is  considered  and  counted 
as  1. 

Money  is  made  up  of  monetary  units  and  has 
value  at  the  rate  per  weight  at  which  the  mone- 
tary unit  has  value.  Therefore  any  given  weight 
of  money  has  a  fixed  or  constant  arithmetical 
value. 

The  value  of  any  article  or  unit  of  merchan- 
dise is  related  or  compared  to  the  value  of  the 
monetary  unit.  If  said  article  of  merchandise 
be  a  commodity  (an  article  sold  by  weight)  its 
weight  is  directly  related  to  the  weight  of  the 
money  that  exchanges  for  it  (the  price)  and  its 
value  is  inversely  related  to  the  weight  of 
money  that  exchanges  for  it.  If  its  weight  be 
greater  than  the  weight  of  the  money  (the  price) 
that  exchanges  for  it,  it  is  relatively  less  valua- 
ble; if  less,  it  is  relatively  more  valuable;  if  the 
same,  it  is  relatively  equally  valuable.  If  it  be 
twice  as  heavy  as  the  money  that  it  exchanges 
for,  it  has  half  the  relative  value  of  the  money 
it  exchanges  for,  or  is  half  as  valuable  (per 
weight)  as  the  money  it  exchanges  for,  etc.     An 


58        THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

avoirdupois  pound  of  any  commodity  equally 
valuable  with  United  States  money  is  worth 
$271.31  per  pound.  United  States  money  is 
always  worth  $271.31  per  avoirdupois  pound 
(and  always  is  271.31  dollars  to  the  avoirdupois 
pound,  the  common  pound  weight  of  United 
States  commerce).  Any  given  weight  of  money 
has  a  fixed  or  constant  mathematical  value. 
The  value  of  the  monetary  unit  counts  1  in  (the 
power  of)  ownership  and  counts  1  in  commerce, 
which  is  the  interchange  of  (the  power  of)  own- 
ership. (The  power  of  ownership  is  "earthly 
power.") 

Money  is  that  commodity  whose  value  is 
mathematically  invariably  equal  to  its  weight  as 
weighed  by  the  (w^eight  of  the)  monetary  unit. 
The  weight  of  the  monetary  unit  is  always 
(counted  as)  1  and  its  value  is  always  (counted 
as)  1.  And  this  unity  of  value  is  a  quality  or 
distinction,  that  is  an  essential  characteristic  of 
the  monetary  unit  and  not  of  any  given  quan- 
tity of  any  other  commodity.  The  count  of 
money  per  weight  always  equals  its  count  per 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  59 

value.  The  fact  that  the  monetary  unit  always 
has  the  weight  I  and  also  always  has  the  value 
1  is  essential  to  money  and  is  characteristic  and 
definitive  of  money.  Consider  value  as  dissolved 
in  a  definite  common  weight  and  you  will  see 
something. 

The  relative  value  of  commodities  is  their 
value  referred  (mathematically)  to  weight.  It 
is  the  same  as  the  relative  values  of  an  equal  or 
common  weight  of  each  commodity.  And  in  the 
case  of  the  commodity  money  that  relative  value 
is  standard  and  always  counted  as  1.  And  to 
this  relative  unity  or  1  the  relative  value  of  every 
commodity  is  compared.  Money  has  an  anal- 
ogue in  water  in  tables  of  specific  or  relative 
gravity  where  the  weight  of  a  common  volume 
of  water  is  specified  as  1 .  A  table  of  specific 
gravities  is  the  same  as  the  table  or  list  of  the 
relative  weights  of  an  equal  volume  of  sub- 
stances, always  supposing  some  one  substance  as 
always  having  the  weight  1  for  this  equal  or 
common  volume.  This  substance  is  the  stand- 
ard.    Consider  weight  as  dissolved  in  a  definite 


60        THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

common  volume.  A  table  of  specific  gravity  is 
analogous  to  a  table  of  relative  value. 

But  the  great  distinction  of  money  is  that  it  is 
wages,  the  material  for  the  ownership  of  which 
workmen  in  capitalism  work,  and  also  the  ma- 
terial in  which  rent  or  tribute  is  exacted  and 
paid.  Money,  tribute,  rent,  and  wages;  are  the 
same  thing  and  have  the  same  power.  The 
owner,  or  Lord  of  Elarth,  Luke  IV.  5,  6,  7,  gets 
money  by  exacting  tax,  rent  or  tribute,  the 
wage  earner  gets  tribute  by  exacting  rent  or 
tribute,  by  exacting  the  same  thing.  The  ills  of 
mankind  result  from  the  ill  use  of  power  and 
material  in  the  business  house  of  human  life. 
Without  ownership  and  without  taxation  and 
without  money  men  will  naturally  freely  and 
equitably  distribute  the  gifts  of  God  and  insure 
the  general  happiness  of  mankind. 

Money  springs  from  ownership,  monopoly, 
negation.  Reduce  ownership  to  zero  and  you 
permit  the  equitable  distribution,  the  proper 
action  of  the  vital  power,  the  just  or  right  use 
of  the  earth,  the  universal  health,  the  kingdom 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  61 

of  God  and  its  righteousness.  Ownership  is 
negative  of  power — the  divine  power.  And 
value  points  out  this  negation.  Value  is  occas- 
ioned by  men.  And  value  is  the  divine  voice 
warning  men  of  this  infraction  of  divine  law. 
Ownership  is  an  obstruction,  a  disorder;  and  it 
occasions  disease  and  distress;  and  capitalism 
is  the  belief  in  ownership  and  is  a  mental  dis- 
order, an  obstruction  to  the  Intelligence,  an  in- 
constancy to  the  holy  spirit,  the  public  spirit,  the 
spirit  of  truth,  and  it  is  an  abomination  to  (the 
Kingdom  of)  God.  It  is  an  insanitary  condition 
(of  the  general  human  make-up).  Capitalism 
conflicts  with  the  Kingdom  of  God,  the  nat- 
ural government  of  the  creation,  and  by  ceasing 
to  protect  it,  or  by  allowing  the  power  of  life  its 
free,  true  course,  capitalism  is  overcome,  or 
eliminated  like  a  disease.  Eliminate  it  from 
your  (cellular)  structure.  Remove  it  root  and 
branch.  If  you  serve  God  you  truly  economize 
or  keep  house  in  the  house  of  God,  the  Kingdom 
of  God,  and  you  encourage  the  vital  power — the 
power  of  Life — and  you  eliminate  or  abolish  dis- 


62        THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

ease  or  "cast  out  the  devil"  or  allow  "angels" 
(of  the  spirit  of  truth,  the  public  spirit,  the  Holy 
Spirit)  (True  ideas)  (true  influences)  (Good 
Sense)  to  minister  unto  you,  or  man  to  progress 
and  be  happy.   Mat.  IV.  8-11. 

The  disease,  capitalism,  or  the  obstruction, 
ownership,  punishes  the  body  politic  and  costs  it 
a  tremendous  amount  of  vital  energy,  or  wastes 
or  fails  to  properly  use  or  utilize  this  vital  en- 
ergy. This  waste  or  failure  is  obviated  or  pre- 
vented in  the  system  advocated  by  the  Christ, 
which  is  without  ownership,  money  and  com- 
merce. This  is  the  truly  moral  system.  I  John 
II.  1 .,  etc.  To  serve  God  is  to  truly  serve  men. 
To  maintain  ownership  punishes  the  body  politic 
and  afflicts  man.  You  cannot  serve  man  and 
Mammon.  And  Mammon  is  ownership.  You 
shall  rightly  use  the  natural  laws  of  the  uni- 
verse. Every  false  plant  shall  be  uprooted.  Mat. 
XV.  9,  13.  And  Mammon  is  a  false  plant,  a 
tare.     Mat.  XIII. 

Ownership  is  upheld  in  capitalism  and  capi- 
talism is  the  ownership  system  and  it  is  inter- 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  63 

changed  in  capitalism  and  capitalism  is  also  the 
commercial  system,  and  it  is  rented  or  hired 
out  in  capitalism,  and  capitalism  is  also  the 
tribute  or  taxation  system.  Capitalism  is  the 
system  of  legal  "hold-up,"  legalized  highway 
robbery.  These  robbers  are  usually  provided 
with  letters  of  marque  such  as  patents  of  title  to 
lands,  franchises  for  legal  freebootery,  "rights" 
for  committing  wrongs  upon  the  highway  of  life. 
Capitalism  is  the  system  of:  broadcloth  beggars, 
starving  workingmen,  honored  thieves,  tinseled 
murderers,  lettered  hypocrites,  and  business  Is- 
cariots.  It  is  the  system  of  punishment  and 
prisons  for  true  patriots,  of  command  and  pal- 
aces for  propertied  lepers,  and  of  praise  and  pro- 
motion for  fawning  sycophants.  It  is  the  sys- 
tem of  torturers  and  of  deceivers  and  of  mer- 
chants and  of  murderers  and  of  false  worship- 
pers and  of  whosoever  loveth  and  maketh  a  lie. 
Rev.  XXII.  1 5.  And  whosoever  maketh  a  lie, 
liveth  a  lie. 

Console  O  Lord  thy  suffering  saints.     Mat. 
XXIV.    22.     Cut  off  these  days  of  tribulation. 


64         THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

Vindicate  and  exalt  thine  elect.  Luke  I.  48-52. 
Hear  you  O  Israel.  Seize  you  upon  your  inheri- 
tance. Isaiah  LXV.  16-24.  Col.  I.  12;  III.  24. 
Mark  XII.  Luke  XX.  You  shall  triumph  who 
are  of  the  feiith  eternal  and  thenceforth  shall  for- 
ever rejoice.  Pressure,  boys,  pressure,  pressure, 
pressure !  Break  down  ownership  utterly.  Break 
down  the  dollar  dam  and  the  dollar  diplomacy. 

Capitalism,  the  system  in  which  ownership  is 
practiced  and  in  which  money  obtains,  has  a 
standard  unit  (of  the  power)  of  ownership, 
which  is  the  ownership  of  the  (power  of  the) 
monetary  unit.  The  (power  of  the)  ownership 
of  the  monetary  unit  is  always  accounted  as  I 
and  is  the  unit  of  power  in  the  Satanocracy 
called  Capitalism,  Luke  IV.  6,  7,  and  it  is  the 
unit  of  commercial  account.  This  is  called  the 
unit  of  value.  The  value  of  the  monetary  unit 
is  called  the  unit  of  value  and  is  the  commercial 
account  unit. 

Salary  serfs  work  for  units  of  ownership,  or 
for  the  unity  of  ownership,  and  capitalism  is  the 
system  of  money  and  of  servitude  to  owner- 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  65 

ship.  For  the  power  of  ownership  is  counted 
by  means  of  money.  Ownership  is  negative  or 
obstructive  and  thereon  hangs  the  persistence  or 
progress  of  poverty. 

In  capitalism  (the  use  of)  money  is  let,  leased 
or  lent  (out)  at  usury  or  interest,  and  capital- 
ism is  the  usury  or  "banking"  system,  and  the 
use  of  land  is  lent,  leased  or  let  (out)  for  hire  or 
rent,  counted  in  money,  and  so  also  is  the  use 
of  men,  and  capitalism  is  the  rent,  the  fee,  the 
usury,  and  the  Wage;  system:  (in  fact,  the  taxa- 
tion system). 

Land  cannot  be  taxed,  i.  e.,  be  painfully  or 
onerously  burdened,  but  men  can  be  taxed; 
that  is,  be  painfully,  onerously,  inequitably  or 
unjustly  burdened.  Mat.  XI.  2,  8.  Isaiah  I.  4; 
II.  2.  To  favor  this  injustice  is  to  favor  the  per- 
manence of  poverty.  The  tax  upon  man  is  the 
single  tax.  And  the  progress  of  poverty  is  not 
true  progress,  but  is  born  of  resistance  to  prog- 
ress— the  true  progress  of  man.  And  man  shall 
progress  in  the  heavenly  riches.   Mat.  VI.  1 9,  20. 

Taxes  of  special  kinds  and  in  various  ways 


66        THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

are  exacted  by  and  conceded  to  Capitalism,  the 
general  conspiracy  or  cooperation  of  owners 
(the  government  of  capitalists),  and  with  part 
of  this  loot  or  tribute  it  bribes  the  pawns,  peons, 
wage  servants,  or  salary  serfs,  the  soldiers  of 
loot  and  lucre  engaged  in  its  preservation,  con- 
servation and  maintenance.  But  modern  gov- 
ernments consist  of  more  than  this  and  they 
will  unreservedly  abolish  ownership  with  all  its 
debts,  bonds,  taxes  and  other  abominations. 
Rev.  XVII.  5. 

Taxes  exacted  by  a  private  owner  or  retail 
sovereign  are  called  by  some  other  name,  such 
as  rent,  interest,  fare,  royalty,  hire,  etc.  Taxes 
are  usually  exacted  in  money,  and  wage  slaves 
work  for  money,  or  for  taxes,  or  for  tax,  or  for 
taixation,  or  for  tribute,  or  for  the  power  of  own- 
ership, capital.  With  money  they  pay  exactions 
of  the  money  power  (taxation)  (tribute),  and 
to  get  it  they  work  for  the  money  power.  Taxes 
or  money  is  evidence  of  ownership.  Taxation 
is  the  outward,  visible  and  active  sign  of  the  in- 
ward  crime,   capitalism    (belief   in   ownership) 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  67 

(belief  that  the  state  of  ownership,  capitalism,  is 
right,  belief  that  the  life  of  man  in  the  state  of 
the  life  in  which  ownership  is  practiced  and 
which  is  called  capitalism,  is  the  right  state  for 
the  good  of  man). 

The  United  States  cannot  produce  one  pound 
of  metal,  spear  of  wheat,  ear  of  corn,  bale  of 
cotton,  fleece  of  wool,  yard  of  cloth,  stick  of 
lumber,  brick,  gallon  of  wine,  or  any  useful 
thing  of  any  kind,  the  more,  because  of  the 
boasted  1 50  billions  of  ownership  that  capitalists 
call  "wealth"  and  say  belongs  to  "us."  The 
new  day  dawns  and  you  shall  see  great  things. 
John  I.  50.  Like  an  exorcised  devil  that  1 50 
billion  dollar  thief  will  take  wings  and  disap- 
pear. The  cloud  dissipates,  the  new  sun  shines, 
and  the  world  is  clear  of  debt  forever. 

Abolish  all  ownership  and  all  men  will  have 
life  more  abundantly  and  exaltedly  and  do  all 
work  easily  and  handsomely  in  the  true  free- 
dom, the  Kingdom  of  God.  John  X.  10,  16. 
The  presence  of  the  general  abundance  of  the 


68         THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

life  of  man  consists  in  the  absence  of  ownership. 
Luke  XII.  15. 

Ownership  sickens  the  body-politic  and  re- 
presses the  public  spirit,  and  capitalism  is  a  sys- 
tem of  public  debt  and  a  state  of  chronic  calam- 
ity. Eliminate  ownership  and  you  eliminate 
owners  or  obstructors,  and  each  and  every  man 
becomes  useful  and  he  consequently  attends  to 
something  useful  or  conducive  to  the  general 
health,  the  public  harmony,  the  peace  of  heaven 
and  earth,  the  happiness  of  God  and  man.  Util- 
ity is  the  quality  of  conferring  happiness,  and  in 
men  it  is  called  usefulness.  And  a  useful  man 
serves  truly  in  the  grand  scheme  of  our  being 
here  on  earth.  This  is  the  first  duty  of  man. 
And  this  duty  demands  true  adjustment  to  the 
natural  plan,  general  justice.  And  you  shall 
serve  your  neighbor  as  yourself. 

You  shall  suddenly  find  no  ownership,  and 
no  commerce  or  interchange  of  ownership,  and 
that  an  American  $20  gold  piece  has  no  value, 
and  that  all  monetary  indebtedness  is  dead  and 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  69 

damned  and  buried  in  the  desert  of  the  past, 
where  no  true  man  is.     In  hell  leave  it. 

In  the  true  economy  or  housekeeping  all  men 
will  be  naturally  easily  and  justly  worked,  fed, 
educated,  sheltered  and  clothed.  And  the  things 
we  are  coming  to  are  as  natural  as  those  w^e 
have  passed  by.  And  every  good  plant  shall 
flourish  among  men,  and  the  Perfect  Peace  shall 
reign  forever.  "Thou  shalt  love  thy  neighbor  £i8 
thyself"  is  the  expression  of  the  holy  or  public 
spirit,  the  true  or  divine  principle. 

The  adjustment  or  "restitution  of  all  things," 
St.  Peter,  Acts  III.  21,  will  be  rapid,  joyful  and 
easy.  Men  are  all  great  gainers  by  the  new 
state  of  affairs.  Luke  XVIII.  29,  30.  Mat.  XIX. 
29,  30.  Nine-tenths  of  the  people  hold  much 
less  than  one-tenth  of  the  ownership  or  "wealth" 
and  at  the  cost  of  much  hardship  and  suffering. 
The  new  state  of  affairs  to  all  of  these  will  be 
miraculously  beneficial.  Marvel  not  at  this. 
John  V.  28.  Mat.  XXI.  42.  Mark  XII.  1  L 

Protect  the  state  or  condition  wherein  all  are 
truly  active  and  human  industry  always  happy. 


70        THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

Proclaim  the  day  of  judgment,  the  establish- 
ment of  justice,  the  reign  of  (industrial)  peace, 
the  world  of  (economic)  good  will.  Inaugurate 
the  noble  progress. 

The  belief  in  the  property  right  is  a  supersti- 
tion akin  to  the  belief  in  the  "divine  right"  of 
despots.  The  government  of  ownership  or  the 
theory  of  property  has  no  true  sanctity,  but  to 
attack  it  is  considered  by  the  blind  to  be  a  mark 
or  act  of  treason.  But  many  that  w^ere  blind  are 
receiving  sight  and  beginning  to  see  that  own- 
ership is  without  the  truth  or  true  government. 
We  demand  more  abundant  life.  John  X.  10. 
Be  ye  doers  of  the  word.  Women  shall  have 
their  rights.  And  women  and  men  in  spirit 
and  in  truth  shall  live  for  the  universal  or  great 
humanity,  the  great  glory  of  accomplishment, 
the  Kingdom  of  God  and  the  transcendent  w^orld 
to  be,  the  transcendental  state  of  being.  And 
they  shall  all  enter  upon  the  high  and  true  hu- 
manity, the  great  and  noble  citizenship. 

Every  woman  and  every  man  has  in  truth  the 
right  of  the  rejection  of  the  evil,  the  unlovable, 
and  of  the  acceptance  and  selection  of  the  good, 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  71 

the  lovable.  We  will  secure  to  every  man  the 
power  to  exercise  this  right.  Man  shall  be  free. 
The  good  shall  be.  Oppression  shall  die.  Jus- 
tice shall  be  done.  The  elect  of  God  shall 
triumph. 

The  duty  of  each  and  every  one  is  to  en- 
deavor, to  hear,  to  know  and  to  express  the 
truth;  and  this  endeavor  maintains  and  increases 
the  true  happiness  of  the  world.  John  XVIII. 
37,  and  XIX.  37.  And  every  good  thing  is 
added  to  this  endeavor.  Seek  ye  first  the  King- 
dom of  God  and  it  will  include  for  you  all  good 
things.  The  Truth  is  the  word  of  God,  the  ex- 
pression of  nature.  John  XVII.  1 7.  And  the 
truth  in  you  is  your  highest  expression,  the  ex- 
pression of  your  nobler  nature,  and  you  have  a 
language  of  deeds  and  of  natural  accomplish- 
ment. You  will  easily  eliminate  crime  and  suf- 
fering from  the  race  when  capitalism  does  not 
darken  your  eyes  to  the  true  light,  the  Light  of 
the  World.  By  this  light  the  truth  is  seen  and 
heard,  for  the  "sixth  sense"  perceives  by  this 
light.     Men  can  hear  without  ears  and  see  with- 


72         THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

out  eyes,  or  by  the  light  and  power  immortal. 
And  the  Money  God  shall  no  more  glut  the 
market  with  wage  slaves  nor  strew  it  with  mur- 
dered men.  For  Ownership  is  no  more  and  the 
money  God  hath  ceased  to  reign  and  the  mar- 
ket hath  ceased  to  be.  Rev.  XVIII.  8-24.  Mat. 
IV.  10.   Luke  IV.  8. 

Do  the  right  thing  in  the  right  time.  Expel 
Iscariot  instantly.  John  XIII.  27.  The  right 
thing  to  do  is  to  abolish  ownership.  The  right 
time  to  do  it  in  is  Now. 

We  demand  more  abundant  productiveness. 
John  X.   10. 

We  demand  more  splendid  housekeeping. 
JohnX.  10. 

We  demand  the  greater  glory  of  men  and  the 
greater  glorification  of  God.  John  X.  10.  Mat. 
XX.  25. 

We  demand  the  establishment  of  the  supernal 
glory  upon  earth  that  for  us  is  willed  in  Heaven. 
JohnX.  10.  Mat.  VI.  10. 

Amen. 


CHAPTER  III. 

In  order  to  explain  the  nature  of  money  it  is 
necessary  to  know  somewhat  of  the  subject  of 
weight. 

The  grain  Troy,  avoirdupois  and  apothecary 
are  one  and  the  same. 

Avoirdupois 

Grain  Dram       Ounce    Pound       Gramme 

7000  =  256  =  16  =  1  =  453.59 
437.5     =       16    =       1     = 

27%  =         1 

The  avoirdupois  pound  is  a  common  unit 
weight  of  that  part  of  the  earth  which  includes 
the  British  Empire  and  the  United  States,  and 
the  grain  is  the  common  unit  weight  of  that 
great  area.  For  it  is  through  this  common  grain 
weight  that  the  various  British  and  United  States 
systems  of  weight  are  mentally  assimilated  and 
differentiated  or  marshaled  into  their  proper  rela- 
tive position.  The  word  "avoirdupois**  is  from 
avoirs  du  pois,  goods  of  weight,  that  is,  heavy 
goods. 


74         THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 


Troy 

Lb. 

Oz. 

Dwt.        Grain 

Gramme 

1    = 

=    12 

=    24    =    5760 

=    373.2419 

1 

=    20    =      480 

=      31.1035 

1     =        24 

=        1.5552 

1 

=        0.0648 

A  Troy  ounce,  or  480  grains,  is  the  standard 
weight  used  in  the  United  States  for  weighing 
gold,  and  by  it  crude  gold  is  received  at  the 
mint.  By  crude  gold  we  mean  gold  not  in  the 
form  of  United  States  money.  Silver  is  also 
dealt  in  or  weighed  in  the  United  States  by  this 
weight,  but  silver  is  not  used  as  money  in  the 
United  States.  The  United  States  Government 
at  its  treasury,  mint,  assay  offices,  etc.,  counts 
the  Troy  ounce,  by  tenths,  etc.,  or  decimally, 
and  does  not  count  its  gold  and  silver  in  the 
Troy  pound  nor  in  *'penn5rweights"  nor  "grains," 
but  the  unit  mint  weight,  or  unit  weight  for 
United  States  minted  gold,  which  is  the  United 
States  money,  is  25.8  grains,  and  is  the  weight 
of  the  gold  dollar.    The  gold  dollar  is  the  mone- 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  75 

tary  unit.     And  (the  power  of)  its  ownership  is 
counted  as  1 .    This  is  its  "purchasing  power.** 

The  Troy  pound  is  in  Httle  or  no  use  either  in 
England  or  the  United  States.  The  Troy  system, 
named  from  Troyes,  France,  where  a  great  an- 
nual fair  was  formerly  held,  is  said  to  have  come 
to  Troyes  from  the  "levant"  or  eastern  Mediter- 
ranean. The  Troy  pound  weighs  exactly  the 
same  as  the  apothecary  pound. 

Apothecary 

Lb.      Oz.      Dram    Scruple     Grain        Gramme 

I   =   12  =  96  =  288  =  5760  =  373.249 

1   =     8  =     24  =     480  =     31.108 

I   =       3  =       60  =       3.888 

1   =       20  =       1.296 

Metric 

The  gramme,  or  gram,  of  the  Metric  system 
divides  decimally  into  deci-,  centi-,  and  milli- 
gram, and  multiplies  into  deka-,  hecto-  and  kilo- 
gram. 

The  kilogram,  or  kilo,  of  1000  gram,  is  the 
unit  weight  for  weighing  heavy  articles,  but  the 


76        THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

basis  of  the  system  is  the  gram.  The  gram  is 
usually  the  unit  of  weight  in  experiments  where 
small  quantities  are  used  and  great  delicacy  in 
weighing  practiced. 

1  gram  =  15.432  grains.  I  Lb.  Av.  =  453.59 
gram  =  .45359  kilogram.  2.2046+  Lb.  Av.  = 
1  Kilogram.  0.0022  Lb.  Av.  =  0.03527  Oz. 
Av.  =   15.432  grain.  Av.  =   I    gram. 

( 1 5432.356639  grains  =  1    Kilogram  "inter- 
national kilogram"  1884.) 
Yard 


Foot 

Inch               Metre  or  meter 

=      3      = 

=      36           =      0.91438 

1       = 

=       12            =      3.30480 

39.3708=      1.00000 

One  meter  is  one  forty-millionth  of  a  merid- 
ian, or  circle  i>assing  through  the  poles  of  the 
earth. 

The  weight  of  one  millilitre  or  cubic  centi- 
meter of  water  is  one  gram  (at  4  degrees  centi- 
grade, its  greatest  density,  and  at  the  ocean 
level).  A  ten-centimeter  cube  of  water  con- 
tedns  a   thousand  millilitre  or    1    litre   or   liter, 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  77 

weighs  a  thousand  gram,  a  kilogram,  or  kilo. 
This  volume  is  a  litre.  A  litre  of  water  weighs 
a  kilo.  A  great  advantage  of  this  system  is  that 
under  it  man  insensibly  absorbs  a  fair  idea  of 
specific  or  relative  gravity,  and  therefore  of  the 
physical  world,  the  world  in  which  man  is  an 
active  factor.  For  instance,  if  a  litre  of  any 
substance  weighs  two  kilo  its  specific  gravity  is 
two,  etc.  A  millilitre  or  cubic  centimetre  is 
usually  called  a  "cc"  or  "cee  cee,"  by  chemists, 
etc. 

The  weight  of  any  substance  may  be  mentally 
considered  as  dissolved  in  its  volume.  In  tables 
of  specific  gravity,  with  water  as  the  standard, 
water  may  be  regarded  as  the  substance  where 
one  weight  is  dissolved  in  one  volume,  or  that 
has  the  standard  weight  per  volume.  The  vol- 
ume and  weight  of  water  supposedly  do  not 
change,  and  its  "specific"  gravity  is  taken  as  1. 
(Its  gravity  or  heaviness  is  counted  as  1 .)  Pure 
cast  lead  weighs  1 1 .352  as  much  as  the  same  vol- 
ume of  water,  and  by  this  rule  pure  cast  lead  has 
the  sp.gr.    11.352.      (In  scientific  practice  the 


78        THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

weight  of  water  is  usually  taken  at  the  sea  level 
and  at  4  degrees  centigrade,  its  greatest  density. ) 

In  articles  sold  by  weight,  value  may  be  con- 
sidered as  dissolved  in  weight.  There  exists  no 
value  in  any  weight  or  in  any  material.  It  is  an 
indication,  an  impression  upon  the  mind,  a  qual- 
ity pointing  to  or  resultant  from  ownership.  So 
it  is  fair  to  assume  that  there  exists  no  weight 
in  any  material.  If  this  be  so,  where  does  this 
weight  exist?  Probably  it  is  an  illusion  of  the 
human  mind;  or,  rather,  we  (commonly)  have 
an  illusive,  hallucinative  or  unscientific  idea  of 
weight  and  also  probably  of  matter.  And  there- 
fore of  the  world  (of  matter).  That  is,  weight 
is  a  quality  pointing  to  something  as  yet  not 
ascertained,  described  or  understood.  And  it 
is  very  likely  that  clear  theories  concerning  mat- 
ter and  mentality  or  spirituality  may  appear. 

And  new  fields,  new  pastures  are  pointed  out 
to  you,  and  into  them  you  are  to  be  led.  You 
are  to  experience  great  mental  advance,  and  are 
on  the  border  of  great  revelation,  discovery  or 
enlightenment.     You  are  to  clearly  see  where^ 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  79 

before  darkness  completely  ba£Fled  your  mental 
vision.  And  perhaps  even  weight  itself  will  be 
"overcome"  as  it  affects  the  human  organism. 
Weight,  like  light,  is  radiated  from  gravic  centers 
according  to  the  law  of  inverse  squares,  and 
some  things  that  are  important  and  generally 
novel  may  be  said  concerning  weight.  And  as 
man  knows  more  of  the  world  he  "rises,"  or  his 
vital  horizon,  or  sphere,  includes  more.  And 
as  man  lives  in  a  more  logical  house  his  health 
improves.  Gravic  centers  are  strongly  heated 
or  molecularly  excited  and  how  "the  balance  of 
nature"  is  maintained  will  yet  be  completely  re- 
vealed, for  all  shall  be  revealed.  But  first,  put 
your  scientific  house  in  order,  or  put  capitalism 
out  of  it,  or  seek  or  find,  first,  the  true  policy  of 
man,  the  Kingdom  of  God  and  its  righteousness, 
that  Light  shall  come  to  every  man.  The  solu- 
tion of  the  questions,  or  facts,  or  wonders,  or 
miracles,  of  Nature  will  then  be  simple  and  will 
be  rapidly  added  unto  you,  or  revealed.  But 
first  accept  (demand)  your  redemption  (from 
Capitalism) . 


80        THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

And  to  those  who  have  much  knowledge 
much  shall  be  given,  but  to  capitalists  or  believ- 
ers in  ownership  none  can  come,  for  by  what 
measure  it  may  come  to  them,  by  that  measure 
cease  they  to  be  capitalists  or  harborers  of  cap- 
italism, worshippers  of  error,  victims  of  igno- 
rance, abettors  of  inquity,  lovers  of  darkness. 
Luke  XII.  47,  48. 

THE  DOLLAR  WEIGHT 

is  the  unit  weight  with  which  is  weighed  the 
money  of  the  United  States.  It  is  the  weight 
of  the  moneteiry  unit,  or  dollar  of  25.8  grains 
"Troy"  of  United  States  minted  gold.  The 
minted  gold  of  the  United  States  is  the  money 
of  the  United  States.  And  this  25.8  grains  is 
to  be  considered  as  an  entirety,  or  as  1 ,  and 
counted  as  an  arithmetical  unity,  or  as  1 .  The 
United  States  dollar  contains  23.22  grains  of 
pure  gold  and  2.58  grains  of  pure  copper,  or  is 
nine-tenths  or  .900  fine  and  weighs  25.8  grains. 
The  United  States  "silver  dolW"  is  not  truly 
a  dollar.     It  is  a  "silver  dollar"  and  is  a  repre- 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  81 

sentative  or  token  for  the  dollar,  just  as  is  a 
"paper  dollar." 

The  "struggle"  between  "Capital  and  Labor" 
is  the  struggle  of  Capital,  the  power  of  owner- 
ship, against  progress;  of  the  Money  Power 
against  true  government ;  of  hell  against  Heaven ; 
of  ignorance  against  Intelligence.  Upon  this 
abolition  of  ow^nership  you  will  no  longer  think 
of  the  burning  of  San  Francisco  as  the  loss  of  a 
quantity  of  dollars  or  of  so  much  (power)  of 
ownership. 

Three  hundred  and  eighty-seven  Troy  ounces 
of  pure  gold  alloyed  with  43  Troy  ounces  of  pure 
copper  makes  8000  dollars  at  the  United  States 
mint,  or  43  multiplied  by  9  equals  387;  387 
plus  43  equals  430;  8000  multiplied  by  25.8 
grains  equals  206,400  grains  equals  430  ounces 
Troy. 

A  dollar  of  the  United  States  contains  23.22 
grains  of  pure  gold.  To  divide  480  by  23.22 
gives  the  number  of  dollars  that  contain  the 
gold  of  a  Troy  ounce  of  pure  gold,  which  is 
20.67183+.     Pure  gold  in  commerce  is  worth 


82         THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

$20.67  per  Troy  ounce,  the  price  given  for  it  at 
the  United  States  mint.  But  it  is  worth  slightly 
more  than  this,  for  480  divided  by  23.22  is  ex- 
actly 20.260/387,  and  this  multiplied  by  387 
gives  8000,  confirming  the  United  States  mint 
rule  that  387  ounces  of  pure  gold  is  used  in  mak- 
ing $8000.  The  value  of  a  Troy  ounce  of 
United  States  money  is  nine-tenths  of 
$20,260/387,  or  $18,234/387,  or  $18.60i«%87, 
or  very  near  $18.60.  The  copper  is  an  expense 
to  the  government,  and  so  is  the  minting. 

An  avoirdupois  pound  of  pure  gold  is  7000 
grains;  divide  7000  grains  of  pure  gold  by  23.22 
to  get  its  value  in  dollars,  which  is  $301.46+. 

If  you  divide  20.67  by  the  price  of  silver  in 
cents  per  ounce,  the  result  is  the  ratio  between 
silver  and  gold  at  that  price.  For  instance,  di- 
vide 20.67  by  53,  the  result  is  39,  which  is  the 
"ratio"  between  silver  and  gold  at  the  price  53 
cents  per  silver  ounce.  It  means  that  39  ounces 
of  pure  silver,  usually  called  "fine  silver,"  has 
the  same  commercial  power  as  one  ounce  of 
pure  or  "fine  gold,"   or  that  these  weights  of 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  83 

these  commodities  in  commercial  exchange  are 
of  equal  value.  At  60  cents  the  ratio  would  be 
34.45,  at  50  cents  it  would  be  41.34,  etc.,  etc. 
The  United  States  coins  or  mints  free  of 
charge  (except  for  work  done  for  foreign  coun- 
tries). A  merchant  reckons  a  demand  promis- 
sory note  against  him  as  indebtedness.  The  gov- 
ernment of  the  United  States  is  supposed  to  rep- 
resent the  people  of  the  United  States.  There 
is  no  "profit"  to  the  United  States  Government 
in  coining  silver  into  silver  dollars.  It  is  like 
coining  paper  into  paper  dollars,  w^hich  is  to  coin 
a  promise  to  pay.  This  shows  that  value  points 
to  debt,  and  debt  is  sin,  and  sin  is  economic  de- 
linquency, the  negation  or  non-fulfillment  of  the 
right  state  or  condition  of  activity  or  life.  Debt 
is  sin,  economic,  public  or  moral  delinquency,  in- 
compliance with  the  demand  of  the  holy  or  pub- 
lic spirit,  the  just  spirit  or  spirit  of  justice,  in- 
tellectual adjustment — spirit  of  truth.  Intelli- 
gence. We  have  been  borne,  as  it  were,  uncon- 
sciously, from  the  dark  past  to  here.  But  this 
spirit  or  influence  will  now  lead  us  onward  from 


84         THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

this  civilization  and  forward  into  the  immortal 
and  eternal  home  of  the  blessed.  John  XIV.  1 , 
2,  6.  John  XVI.  12-15.  Feed  my  lambs.  John 
XXI.  15.   I  John  IV.  1.   Rev.  XXI.  5. 

"Economy"  is  good  housekeeping.  Economic 
delinquency  is  imperfect  housekeeping,  bad  gov- 
ernment; and  all  sins,  error,  diseases,  debts,  de- 
linquencies, shortcomings,  etc.,  come  under  this 
head.  They  are  debts.  Do  away  with  our 
debts.  Forgive  us  our  debts.  They  are  not  in 
truth,  not  in  the  true  economy.  They  are  un- 
economical, unphysiological,  unphysiocratic 
("unconstitutional"),  unrighteous,  irrational, 
unholy,  unchristian,  unsaintly,  unglorified,  un- 
godly. The  world  pays  or  expiates  as  it  goes 
and  it  owes  nothing  to  the  past.  There  is  no  ob- 
ligation upon  any  man  nor  upon  man  to  main- 
tain or  to  cherish  or  to  worship  any  debt  or  dis- 
ease among  us.  And  all  debts,  diseases  and 
shortcomings  are  "uneconomic;"  not  in  good 
housekeeping.  And  we  who  are  of  the  glorified 
demand  that  the  blind,  the  ulcerous,  the  treach- 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  85 

erous  and  the  ungodly  shall  be  quickly  elimi- 
nated.  John  XIII.  27-31. 

Fourteen  and  seven-twelfths  ounces  Troy  is 
one  pound  avoirdupois.  Multiply  pounds  avoir- 
dupois by  this  number  to  convert  them  into 
ounces  Troy.  The  pound  Troy  is  to  the  pound 
avoirdupois  as  5760  to  7000,  or  144  to  175,  or 
72  to  87.5.  The  ounce  Troy  is  to  the  ounce 
avoirdupois  as  480  to  437.5,  or  as  192  to  175, 
or  as  96  to  87.5. 

Salt  very  likely  was  the  first  money.  Up  to 
a  recent  date,  say  1890,  it  seems  to  have  been 
used  as  money  in  portions  of  the  Soudan  and  in 
parts  of  Abyssinia,  and  in  other  places. 

The  words  "sell"  and  "sale"  belong  to  the 
great  family  of  "salt"  words:  sal  and  sel  are 
Spanish  and  French  for  salt.  Sold,  solder,  solve, 
salve,  health,  hale,  holy,  save,  salvation,  solu- 
tion, solid,  soldier,  are  of  this  family.  Soldo  is 
Italian  for  about  a  United  States  cent.  Five  cente- 
simi  equal  1  soldo,  20  soldi  or  100  centesimi 
equal  1  lira,  the  same  metal  with  the  same  value 
as  a  French  franc  and  interchangeable  with  it 


86         THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

throughout  the  "Latin  Union.*'  A  French  sou  is 
5  centimes ;  1 00  centimes,  or  20  sous,  is  1  franc. 
The  word  sou  is  "popular"  but  not  "official" 
monetary  French.  The  coin  popularly  called  1 
sou  is  marked  cinq  centimes  and  the  coin  called 
2  sous  is  marked  dix  centimes.  In  like  manner 
the  French  gold  20  franc  piece  is  popularly 
called  a  "napoleon."  Solde  is  old  English  for 
wages.  The  modern  Spanish  and  Italian  is  sueldo 
and  soldo.  Old  French  for  sou  is  sol  and  sold, 
all  derivatives  of  solidus.  When  anything  is 
traded  for  money  it  is  sold,  made  solid,  metal- 
ized,  or  "realized."  The  first  Roman  coin  was 
called  a  solidus  and  designated  as  the  daily  pay 
of  a  soldier.  His  pay  after  this  was  called  his 
solidarium,  which  before  was  paid  or  reckoned 
in  salt  and  called  his  salarium,  or  salary,  his 
bribe.  The  word  soldier  is  derived  from  solidus 
and  the  word  solde  is  obsolete  English  for  salary 
or  military  pay,  and  later  also  for  civil  wages. 
The  Italian  soldo,  the  French  sous,  and  the  Eng- 
lish sold,  etc.,  are  near  relatives  of  the  latin  soli- 
dus. 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  87 

The  use  of  money  precedes  any  regular  sys- 
tem of  coinage,  and  old-time  ingots  of  irregular 
weights  and  also  of  regular  weights  were  coins 
of  money  and  in  use  before  any  country  had  a 
regular  or  exclusive  coining  place  or  mint.  In 
payment  for  the  field  of  the  Cave  of  Machpelah 
(Gen.  XXIII.),  Abraham  weighed  to  Ephron,  it 
is  claimed,  1660  B.  C,  400  shekels  of  silver 
"current  money  with  the  merchant,"  meaning 
probably  the  accepted  or  standard  money  bul- 
lion. In  China  today  pure  silver  is  the  accepted 
money  of  commerce,  the  "current  money  with 
the  merchant."  The  commerce  of  Tyre,  said  to 
be  588  B.  C,  was  extensive  and  carried  on  prob- 
ably without  a  regular  system  of  coinage.  See 
Ezekiel  XXVII.  for  an  idea  of  its  variety  and 
importance.  But  there  is  much  doubt  as  to  the 
true  date  of  most  prophetical  writings. 

If  all  nations  had  a  uniform  monetary  unit, 
say  a  definite  weight  of  pure  gold,  it  would  lead 
to  quick  general  knowledge  of  the  enormity  of 
the  general  debt.  To  eliminate  debt  is  the  duty 
of  man.     Eliminate   this   debt.      Eliminate   the 


88         THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

"economic"  disease  of  the  world,  the  taxation, 
the  waste,  the  debauchery,  the  ulceration,  the 
degradation,  the  degeneracy,  and  the  unregen- 
eracy.  The  debt  of  the  world  is  "uneconomic," 
i.  e.,  opposed  to  good  housekeeping,  i.  e.,  op- 
posed to  good  public  policy.  It  is  opposed  to 
the  welfare  of  man.  It  is  opposed  to  the  health 
and  happiness  of  the  human  race. 

Money  is  always  dealt  in  by  weight,  even 
though  regularly  coined  pieces  of  it  are  simply 
counted.  Coins  are  counters.  Coins  of  money 
serve  to  count  themselves  and  thereby  also  to 
count  their  own  value,  which  is  in  the  propor- 
tion of  1  value  to  1  weight.  In  the  money  of  the 
United  States  it  is  1  value  to  every  25.8  grains, 
or  dollar  weight.  The  Eagle  is  258  grains  of 
United  States  money,  or  10  dollars.  The  value 
of  one  dollar  is  the  unit  value  of  the  United 
States.  The  "1  value"  of  a  monetary  unit  is 
the  "account  unit"  of  commercialism  and  there- 
fore money  has  a  constant  arithmetical  or  ac- 
count value  to  any  given  weight. 

To  state  the  value  of  any  merchandise  sold 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  89 

by  weight  is  to  state  the  weight  of  money  that 
a  given  weight  of  it  is  worth  and  the  weight  of 
money  is  the  price.  If  the  commodity  be  money 
it  is  worth  itself,  or  is  itself. 

Token  coins  are  practically  demand  notes, 
and  when  "good"  for  the  money  they  cour 
upon  their  face,  they  stand  at  par.  They  repre- 
sent the  power  of  the  ownership  of  the  weight 
of  money  which  they  designate.  The  United 
States  declares  by  an  act  of  Congress  that  it 
will  protect  at  par  its  tokens  or  pledges,  paper 
as  well  as  metal,  "in  the  markets,"  and  of  course 
this  is  its  duty  in  capitalism.  In  capitalism  it  is 
"in  honor  bound"  to  maintain  the  world  in 
money  slavery  and  in  degradation.  Therefore, 
in  ultimate  case,  it  must  stand  ready  to  give 
gold  for  these  tokens,  dollar  for  nominal  dollar; 
and  therefore  the  gold  coin  of  the  country,  the 
only  money  of  the  country,  is  sometimes  called 
"the  money  of  ultimate  redemption."  It  is  also 
called  the  "basis"  of  the  monetary  "system." 
But  the  "basis"  of  any  monetary  system  is  the 
error  or  ownership.    Upon  this  is  built  the  arro- 


90        THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

gant  "system"  of  money  known  as  "the  single 
gold  standard,"  and  also  the  "alternative  sys- 
tem," or  "double  standard  of  value"  system. 
This  system  obtained  from  1 783,  when  the 
United  States  mint  was  established,  till  the  law 
of  1873  precluded  silver  money  from  the  "land 
of  the  free"  and  from  the  hut  of  the  slave  in 
order  to  please  the  bondholder.  But  "ultimate 
redemption"  truly  consists  in  the  ultimate  aban- 
donment of  ownership,  the  abandonment  of  the 
last  bit  of  ownership.  It  is  obvious,  axiomatic, 
that  the  world  free  of  ownership  does  not  serve 
the  devil  and  is  out  of  hell  and  is  free  from  the 
grip  of  the  bondholder,  and  free  from  mortgage, 
the  grip  of  death. 

Abolish  ownership  absolutely,  unreservedly, 
and  "settle"  the  "money  power"  and  its  debts. 
Reduce  ownership  to  zero  and  free  man  from  its 
bonds  and  bondage.  Luke  XXI.  28.  Elstablish 
"the  elect"  in  Israel  and  welcome  the  coming  of 
the  "Son  of  Man."  Be  awake,  and — Watch. 
Mark  XIII. 

For  every   capitalist.     Mat.    XXIV.    50,    5l. 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  91 

There  shall  not  be  a  public  debt  or  monetary 
bondage.  And  government  shall  not  be  a  man- 
killing  burden.  Government  shall  be  glorifica- 
tion. 

Any  piece  of  paper  money  is  a  demand  note. 
And  if  A  who  owes  B  $10  gives  B  a  United 
States  $10  bill  B  has  accepted  the  taxed  indus- 
trious activity  of  the  people  of  the  United  States 
as  debtor,  or  pawn  or  peon  or  thrall  or  as  "se- 
curity" and  B  is  "satisfied."  Nevertheless  the 
claim  against  the  general  peon  still  remains.  A 
bill  successively  settles  claims  between  individ- 
uals. It  is  done  by  a  change  of  owners  or  "cred- 
itors," the  industry  of  the  United  States  owing 
the  bill  all  the  time.  The  same  may  be  said  of 
token  coins.  The  government  stands  as  the 
jailor  or  gueirdian  of  the  thrall.  The  govern- 
ment of  Capitalism  holds  the  thrall  in  duress  or 
in  "security"  for  the  debt.  In  Capitalism  men 
live  in  a  system  of  peonage,  the  peon  (pawn) 
being  the  industrial  activity  and  the  lord  being 
the  devil,  "the  prince  of  this  world"  (the  bond- 
holder).   John  XII.  31.    Luke  IV.   5-7.     It  is 


92        THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

meet  that  men  should  be  servants,  but  it  is  not 
meet  that  they  should  be  servants  of  the  devil. 
Mat.  XX.  25-34.    Mark  IX.  35.    Luke  IV.  8. 

Miscreants,  misbelievers,  believe  in  the  sanc- 
tity of  ownership.  Property  is  plunder,  taxa- 
tion is  tribute,  interest  is  legal  pillage.  To  tol- 
erate usury  is  to  condone  despotism.  To  collect 
interest-bearing  debt  by  law  is  to  burden  men, 
to  pawn  industry,  to  empeon  men,  and  to  pre- 
vent true  advemce.  Ownership  represses  the 
true  government  and  oppresses  man.  Arise,  let 
us  go  hence.    John  XIV.  3 1 . 

The  United  States  treasury,  or  fiscal  establish- 
ment, is  a  continuous  business  house  or  inter- 
est, and  has  many  sources  of  revenue  or  in- 
come, all  comprised  under  the  one  head  of  tri- 
bute or  taxation,  and  may  have  bills  or  obliga- 
tions out  whose  amount  is  far  greater  than  the 
gold  it  had  in  the  box,  case,  caisse,  cash,  or  treas- 
ury, for  redemption.  These  obligations  shift 
owners,  or  payees,  continuously,  and  when  these 
tokens  are  "in  circulation"  they  are  not  in  the 
United  States  treasury  box  or  redemption  cen- 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  93 

ter.  We  deal  with  an  active  and  continuous 
state  of  affairs.  We  deal  with  the  civilization 
of  the  world.  And  the  light  of  the  world  shines 
in  the  spirit  of  truth. 

Behind  the  money  power  bench  the  modern 
rifle  takes  the  place  of  Caesar's  spear  and  tells 
the  old,  old  story  of  murderous  conquest  and  of 
brutal  glory.  Luke  II.  1;  XXIII.  1-5.  The 
money  power  rules  by  menace,  and  "does  busi- 
ness" on  debt  or  debit  usually  called  "credit." 
The  time  or  delinquency  or  debt  element  enters. 
You  are  imprisoned,  or  "doing  time"  for  the 
money  power.  The  money  power  holds  you 
under  the  aggregate  bonded  debt  of  the  world 
and  wastes  your  blood,  darkens  your  time,  mort- 
gages your  future,  and  opposes  your  happiness; 
and  it  would  sink  you  into  the  greatest  tribula- 
tion, the  most  agonizing  hell.  Luke  XXI.  25,  26. 
Be  not  discouraged.  Mat.  XXIV.  29-31.  Your 
redemption  draweth  nigh.  Luke  XXI.  28-31. 
Stand  steady  for  the  Freedom  of  the  World. 
Override  the  insolence  of  finance.  Overthrow 
your  debts.    Enter  determinately  upon  immortal 


94         THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

advance.  Terminate  Ownership,  mother  of  Mer- 
chants and  Abominations.  Rev.  XVII.  5.  Uplift 
and  uphold  the  light  of  the  world.  John  XII.  32, 
35;  VIII.  12;  IX.  5. 

Import  duties  are  consecrated  to  the  govern- 
ment bondholders  or  set'  aside  for  the  payment 
of  the  national  debt,  and  therefore  this  tariflF 
question  requires  no  end  of  "statesmanship," 
for  many  other  thieveries  or  "grafts"  are  also 
protected.  These  duties  serve  to  honor  the  obli- 
gation of  the  national  debt.  They  uphold  the 
degradation  of  the  people  and  the  disgrace  of 
the  nation.  They  are  a  "protection"  for  monop- 
olies within  the  boundaries  of  the  country  and 
they  help  to  sustain  the  system  of  tribute,  the 
Caesarism  of  Capitalism,  the  commercialism  of 
Judas.  An  import  tax  or  duty  so  high  as  to  be 
utterly  "protective"  allows  no  import  on  that 
article  and  furnishes  no  revenue  to  the  general 
government.  A  neatly  adjusted  lower  duty 
might  furnish  revenue  and  still  to  some  extent 
"protect."  A  free  tariff,  or  no  duty,  does  not 
"protect"  local  ownership  or  monopoly,  native 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  95 

or  domestic  commercial  pillage.  And  it  does  not 
furnish  any  "squeeze"  revenue,  graft,  money, 
for  any  "business"  holdup. 

So  we  have  high  tariff  men,  low  tariff  men,  no 
tariff  men,  and  "tariff  for  revenue  only"  men. 
Every  tariff,  or  tax,  is  "for  revenue  only."  "No 
tariff"  men  find  that  it  takes  rivers  of  money  to 
feed  the  Money  Power,  the  "beast."  And  the 
more  he  is  fed  the  hungrier  and  the  more  fero- 
cious he  becomes. 

All  large  contracts  of  indebtedness  in  the 
United  States  are  practically  payable  only  in 
gold  coin.  The  interest-bearing  debt  both  public 
and  private  of  nearly  all  of  the  world  is  of  gold. 
Aggregate  interest  is  continuous  "income"  or 
tribute  paid  to  the  devil's  empire,  or  to  hell,  for 
the  government  of  debt  is  hell.  And  capitalism, 
the  government  of  ownership,  is  the  government 
of  debt.  TTie  "gold  clause"  is  in  effect  in  every 
United  States  contract  of  debt.  By  an  act  en- 
acted by  the  Congress  of  the  United  States  the 
United  States  government  engages,  pledges  or 
pawns  the  peons,  commons,  or  common  people 


96         THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

of  the  United  States  to  "maintain  the  equal  pur- 
chasing power  of  all  its  moneys,"  real  and 
token,  "in  the  markets."  Nevertheless,  in  legal 
contracts  for  the  payment  of  money  between 
individuals  in  the  United  States  the  "gold 
clause"  usually  appears.  A  "constitutional  law- 
yer" may  assert  that  the  United  States  Constitu- 
tion is  "against"  anything  that  might  "impair 
the  obligation  of  contracts"  or  interfere  with 
"vested  rights."  But  the  times  of  this  ignorance 
are  to  be  winked  at.  Acts  XVII.  29-32.  And  it 
all  depends  upon  the  interpretation.  And  it 
may  be  that  some  "vested  rights"  are  invested 
wrongs.  No  contract  of  degradation  is  binding, 
even  though  it  degrade  the  whole  nation.  And 
a  wrong  is  not  a  right,  even  though  it  be  called 
the  "right"  of  property.  And,  by  the  way,  lest 
we  forget  to  tell  it  later,  we  will  maintain  that 
"equal  purchasing  power"  at  zero.  The  Consti- 
tution of  the  United  States  is  to  be  interpreted 
nobly,  and  knowingly,  can  do  no  wrong.  And 
if  any  judge  hold  to  the  darkness  of  the  past  let 
him   be   Anathema.      The   light   of   the   world 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  97 

comes.     Meiranatha.     I  Cor.  XVI.  22.     And  to 
you.    23. 

Tokens  are  used  advantageously  for  settling 
the  numerous,  usually  small  and  short-lived  obli- 
gations, which  nevertheless  are  very  great  in 
amount  and  aggregate  importance,  and  which 
are  incurred  continually  among  the  common 
people.  But  the  strangle-hold,  death-grip  mort- 
gage, and  money-lending  interest,  is  the  great 
debt  or  bond-holding  interest.  Payment,  princi- 
pal and  interest,  to  this  must  be  in  the  gold  coin, 
the  money  of  the  United  States.  The  bond- 
holding  interest,  the  great  tribute-taking  hog- 
gery,  the  monied  supremacy,  the  money-lending 
tyranny,  the  blood-curdling  incubus,  holds  the 
world  mortgaged  and  men  terrified.  Luke  IV. 
6-8,  18.  Isaiah  LXI.  1-4,  8-11.  Money  Power 
princes,  princes  of  gentiles,  hold  the  land  con- 
quered and  men  bound  in  debt  and  in  fear. 
They  tax  industry  and  retard  advance  while 
wage  slaves  sustain  this  system  and  tremble 
on  the  rim  of  death.  And  "Business"  usually 
maintains  wage  slaves  in  fear  and  degradation. 


98        THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

But  some  wage  slaves  it  feeds  at  fat  tables  and 
clothes  in  soft  raiment.  Behold,  they  which  are 
gorgeously  apparelled  and  live  delicately  are  in 
kings'  courts.  Luke  VII.  25.  (Money  Kings.) 
Capitalists  fawn  upon  wealth  or  Mammon  and 
worship  the  devil.  Hirelings  care  not  for  the 
sheep.  Mat.  IV.  Luke  IV.  John  X.  The  state 
of  mind  called  capitalism  is  wage  slavery  and  it 
is  deirk,  ignoble,  brutal,  cruel,  unjust  and  unglori- 
fied.  It  is  antichrist.  John  IV.  3.  It  is  not  to  be 
found  in  the  world  of  intelligence,  peace  and 
good-will.  It  is  without  the  holy  city  and  among 
dogs,  sorcerers,  merchants,  murderers,  heretics 
and  liars.   Rev.  XXII.  1 5. 

Before  the  French  Revolution  "Milady,"  in 
order  to  sleep  quietly,  set  thousands  of  peons  or 
peasants  to  beating  the  marshes  with  switches 
that  frogs  should  not  croak.  This  "furnished 
employment"  to  "French  industry."  There 
came  a  bloody  revolution.  If  revolution  come 
here,  and  men  be  in  the  dark,  and  starless,  and 
unguided,  American  blood  will  flood  the  land  to 
horses*  bridles.    Rev.  XIV.    19-20.     That  shall 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  99 

never  be,  for  we  shall  be  "within  the  (holy)  city 
and  without  the  wrath  of  God.** 

The  true  peace  is  in  the  government  which 
does  not  admit  of  Mammon  or  monopoly,  and 
monopoly  is  ownership.  Money  is  a  conse- 
quence of  ownership.  No  ownership  means  no 
value,  and  no  value  means  no  money.  The 
''Kingdom*'  or  "government"  of  God  is  a  state 
of  affairs  in  which  money  cannot  enter  (be)  and 
into  which  no  "rich  man**  can  enter,  meaning, 
of  course,  no  man  with  money.  In  it  there  is 
no  monetary  taxation,  no  "economic**  misrule, 
no  meretricious  ostentation,  no  devil  in  com- 
mand, and  no  hell  to  pay.  Rev.  XVIII.  1  -7,  1 8. 
Luke  IV.  5-8.  It  is  a  system  of  affairs  without 
ownership  and  without  commerce  and  "without 
money  and  without  price"  and  not  "a  house  of 
merchandise.**  John  II.  16.  To  drink  of  this 
idea  is  to  drink  of  the  truth  of  heaven,  the 
"water  of  life,**  the  "living  water,*'  which  is 
"without  money  and  without  price.**  John  IV. 
"Whosoever  will,  let  him  take  of  the  water  of 
life  freely,**  i.  e.,  without  money,  without  price. 


100       THE  ABOUTION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

untaxedly,  unhinderedly.  I  John  V.  8.  Luke 
VI.  38.  Ownership  is  in  the  natural  negation, 
the  brutal  ineptitude,  the  denial  of  God,  the 
work  of  the  devil.  And  money  is  a  consequence 
of  ownership.  And  logically,  money  is  regarded 
not  as  the  evil  but  simply  as  an  inevitable  and 
natural  attendant  or  symptom  or  concomitant  of 
the  evil  state  or  condition  or  "system." 

In  the  Money  Power  there  is  no  health,  and  in 
it  there  is  no  help,  no  hope,  no  remedy,  no  sal- 
vation. Money  is  a  sign,  a  symptom  of  the 
beastly  disease,  ownership.  And  it  is  distinc- 
tive. It  is  "the  mark"  of  the  beast.  It  is  the 
symbol,  the  sceptre  of  Mammon.  It  is  the 
"mark"  of  the  mercantile  money-counting  or 
putative  world.  Rev.  XVII.  5,  15,  18.  Putare  is 
to  count.  And  the  Babylonish  woman  is  the 
woman  who  counts  money  (capitalist). 

You  cannot  serve  (the  true)  God  and  (the 
God  of)  ownership.  Choose  ye  the  house  of 
Eternal  Life,  the  home  of  happy  (human)  life. 
You  cannot  uphold  the  aristocracy  of  Satan  and 
uphold  the  democracy  of   (universal)    (world- 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT         101 

wide)  (world-redemptive)  Love.  You  cannot 
practice  diabolatry  and  be  of  the  "saved,**  "the 
elect,'*  the  sane,  the  sensible,  the  truly  patriotic, 
the  truly  conservative,  and  the  truly  progres- 
sive. 

Reject  Capitalism;  the  Satanocracy ;  the  house 
of  Misrule,  Monopoly,  Money,  War,  Debts, 
Bonds,  Taxes,  Commerce,  Theft,  Deceit  and  Suf- 
fering; the  Pandemonium;  the  Temple  of  Dia- 
bolatrists.  Antichrists,  Miscreants,  Sycophants, 
Betrayers,  Hirelings,  Hypocrites,  Merchants  and 
Murderers ;  the  Abomination  of  Desolation  stand- 
ing where  it  ought  not  to  stand;  the  Hell  on 
Elarth;  the  House  of  Ownership.  Mat.  VL  24; 
VII.  24-29. 

And  the  elect  shall  overthrow  this  pantheon 
of  evil  gods  so  that  there  shall  not  be  left  here 
one  law  (stone)  of  it  standing  upon  another. 
Mat.  XXIV.  1 ,  2.  Luke  XXI.  5,  6.  We  demand 
abundant  life.  John  X.  1 0.  So  be  it  done.  Be 
ye  doers  of  the  word,  not  hearers  only.  Mat. 
XXIV.  35.   Jas.  I.  22. 


CHAPTER  IV. 

You  shall  produce  man  at  the  highest  stand- 
ard. You  shall  cultivate  this  earth  at  its  great- 
est glory.  Every  man  shall  bless  the  world.  In 
this  idea  you  are  all  a  harmonious  economic  or 
industrial  unity  or  entity.  You  shall  each  and 
every  one,  assist  in  and  add  to,  the  general  in- 
tellectual and  "material"  advance,  and  therefore 
to  the  general  happiness.  For  the  intellectual 
and  the  material  move  in  unison.  One  is  the 
reflection  of  the  other.  And  true  happiness  ac- 
companies true  advance.  And  untrue  happiness 
(suflFering)  accompanies  untrue  advance.  (Bad 
government.) 

Value  points  out  the  error  ownership.  An 
index  to  the  lack  of  truth  may  exist  in  truth, 
and  is  removed  when  the  lack  is  filled  with 
truth.  It  is  like  a  red  lantern  at  a  pit  in  the 
street — when  the  pit  is  filled  the  lantern  is  re- 
moved. Nature  gives  signs  that  tell  whether 
human  things,  thinks,  or  thoughts,  or  impres- 
sions, are  right  or  wrong.     The  reading  of  these 


104       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

signs  is  part  of  the  science  of  Logic.  Logic  re- 
lates to  the  verb  "to  be,"  the  verb  of  active  ex- 
istence, or  to  "the  verb"  "the  word,"  the  "will  of 
the  living  God,  the  great  "1  Am,"  the  great  "to 
be"  or  "being,"  the  Supreme  Active  Being. 
Logic  is  the  science  of  Revelation,  of  Invention, 
of  Inspiration,  of  Intuition,  of  Prophecy,  or  of 
the  "Word,"  the  Mind.  And  the  "Logos"  is 
the  "Word."  John  I.  1-5.  Elimination  of  error, 
removal  of  obstruction,  enlightenment  or  recep- 
tion of  light,  is  advance,  progress,  the  acceptance 
of  truth,  John  XVII.  1  7,  "the  casting  out  of  the 
devil."  (The  advancement  of  man.)  (The  Ad- 
vance in  man.)  ("I  and  my  Father  are  one.") 

Man  has  no  greater  sense  than  the  sense  of 
justice,  the  sense  of  true  adjustment,  the  sense  of 
truth. 

The  human  mind,  the  mirror  held  up  to  Na- 
ture, may  have  upon  it  darkened  or  smoked 
places,  or  may  be  broken,  distorted,  etc.,  etc. 
To  perfect  this  reflector  is  the  task  of  both  sci- 
ence and  religion.  Or  we  consider  the  search  for 
truth  to  be  the  duty  of  science.     And  we  con- 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT         105 

sider  the  upholding  thereof  to  be  the  duty  of 
true  religion.  This  as  we  regard  it  is  fidelity, 
faith.  John  XVIII.  37.  Mark  XI.  22.  This  is  the 
practice  of  the  noblest  of  mankind,  "the  elect." 
This  is  the  true  task  of  man.  Have  no  faith  in 
the  accursed  fig  tree,  Capitalism.  Mat.  XXI.  19, 
20.  Mark  XI.  9-21.  Man  has  advanced  as  he 
has  become  allied  with  (advancing)  nature. 
Seek  ye  first  the  universal  laws.  And  the  re- 
vealed indentures  or  fits  with  the  unrevealed. 
And  all  is  revealed,  to  the  true  instrumentality, 
the  eye  of  faith  (reason).  And  the  mental  im- 
provement of  man  is  (in)  his  physical  improve- 
ment. And  they  assist  each  other.  Seek  ye 
first  the  Kingdom  of  the  living  God,  the  God  of 
life;  is  the  great  scientific,  the  great  prophetic 
and  the  great  patriotic  commandment.  Mat.  VI. 
33.    Enter  ye  into  this  house. 

Value  is  the  index  pointing  out  the  devil,  or 
indicating  the  error  of  ownership.  To  abolish 
ownership  is  to  cast  out  the  devil,  to  cast  out 
debt,  error,  shortcoming,  unfulfillment,  lack;  to 
enlighten,   to   enliven,   to   heal,   to   save;    men. 


106      THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

Value  indicates  the  power  of  ownership.  Value 
is  the  index  of  the  power  of  ownership,  but  the 
power  of  ownership  is  counter-power,  obstruc- 
tion, and  is  accounted  as  debt,  shortcoming,  non- 
fulfillment, friction,  delinquency.  The  power 
of  ow^nership  is  sometimes  called  capital.  Money 
is  the  mathematical  or  mortal  name  or  number, 
for  the  power,  or  rather,  obstruction,  ownership. 
For  the  power  of  ownership  or  the  Money 
Power  is  not  a  true  power  but  is  born  of  (a 
devil)  resistance  to  (the  true)  Power.  It  is  the 
(visible)  "mark  of  the  (invisible)  beast."  It 
is  the  visible  mark  of  Capitalism.  "The  love  of 
money  is  the  root  of  all  evil."  I  Tim.  VI. 
This  love  of  money  is  the  w^orship  or  workship 
of  ownership,  and  in  the  U.  S.  the  ownership 
of  a  dollar  is  the  unit  or  common  measure 
of  ownership.  The  passing  by  of  ownership 
brings  (you  into)  the  "Kingdom  of  God,"  the 
truly  natural  government,  the  government  or 
economy;  that  unopposedly,  untaxedly,  un- 
worrifully  blesses  and  perfects  you.  It  places 
you  where  you  all  take  a  kindly  interest  in  all 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT         107 

your  fellow  pilgrims,  and  where  you  never 
abandon  any  man.  And  here  your  task,  your 
yoke,  is  simple  and  easy;  and  your  work,  your 
burden,  is  light,  pleasant;  but  the  result  of  your 
effort  is  transcendental.  There  is  a  continuous 
generous  benevolent  universal  influence  or  ac- 
tion throughout  mankind  and  it  is  the  ac- 
tion or  influence  of  the  universal  holy  public  or 
benevolent  spirit;  and  this  action  should  be 
free,  unrestricted  and  unobstructed.  It  brings 
happiness  to  all  on  earth,  Peace,  Good  Will 
toward  men.  You  have  been  shown  this  way, 
and  also  you  have  been  shown  that  there  is  no 
danger  in  taking  this  way.  The  way  is  the  way 
of  the  Life,  and  this  is  the  way  shown  by  the 
Truth.  Take  it.  Remove  every  stone  (law) 
that  obstructs  it.  Mat.  XXIV.  2. 

Good  Will  is  benevolence,  sympathy  with, 
and  accordance  in;  the  plan  of  creation.  To 
have  it  is  truly  to  subsist  of  or  exist  in  the 
creation,  or  to  subsist  or  eat  (of  the  flesh  and 
drink  of  the  blood  of  God,  or)  of  the  great  be- 
neficence and  power  of  the  Creator.    ("Whoso 


108      THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

eateth  my  flesh,  and  drinketh  my  blood,  hath 
eternal  life,  and  I  will  eventually  uplift  him. 
For  my  flesh  is  meat  indeed  and  my  blood  is 
drink  indeed.  He  that  eateth  my  flesh  and 
drinketh  my  blood  dwelleth  in  Me,  and  I  in 
him."   John  VI.  54-65.) 

Abandon  the  house  of  hatred,  murder,  com- 
merce, thievery,  sin,  sorrow  and  sufiFering.  In- 
crease the  faith,  the  true  spirit,  the  general  inter- 
change and  distribution.  Luke  XVII.  5.  Over- 
come the  money  despotism.  Overthrow  tribute, 
taxation,  tribulation,  and  wage  slavery,  and 
"equal  rights"  obtain.  Hear  "the  truth  and  the 
truth  will  make  you  free."  Weaken  and  kill  the 
laws  of  usury  or  interest,  and  of  rent  or  tax. 
Abolish  at  once  for  all  debts  to  be  contracted, 
the  laws  for  the  forcible  collection  of  interest. 
And  at  length  abolish  all  debt.  Announce  this 
as  your  policy.  Demand  now  the  abolition  of 
debt.  Establish  free  freight  and  communication 
or  free  circulation,  true  distribution.  Let  men 
know  it  is  intended  that  wage-earning  shall 
cease  and  that  the  dominion  of  property  is  de- 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT    109 

posed  and  shall  end.  Luke  L  52.  The  right  of 
property  is  the  wrong  of  ownership  and  is  per- 
nicious refuse.  Capitalism  is  a  vermin  infested 
and  rot  infected  rookery  that  shall  be  burnt  with 
"unquenchable"  or  perfect  fire.  Burn  it  and 
eliminate  the  debt  of  the  world  and  work  no 
more  in  it.  Enter  into  the  true  government  and 
abandon  the  house  of  capitalism,  the  desolate 
abomination.   Mat.  XXIII.  38. 

Solicitude  for  the  well-being  of  mankind 
characterizes  Nature's  noblemen  and  to  them  we 
appeal.  They  are  the  salt  of  the  earth.  They 
have  in  them  the  spirit  of  good  government  and 
in  this  we  trust.  They  are  the  truly  good 
citizens,  the  elect  of  God.  They  have  in  them 
the  salvation  of  the  world.  And  they  shall  be 
saved.  Is.XLII.  Mat.  XXIV.  22.  Mark  XIII.  20. 
I  Pet.  I.-V. 

Occupy  the  dwelling  place  or  "mansion"  pre- 
pared for  you  in  the  house  founded  upon  eternal 
"rock."  Remove  the  bars  of  hell,  the  laws  of 
property  and  take  your  true  place.  Dissipate 
ownership.      Disintegrate    capitalistic    jurispru- 


no       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

dence  and  see  its  disorder  abate.  Hear  the  voice 
of  God.   Luke  L  52.   XXI.  6,  22. 

Obey  the  just  sentiment,  the  voice  of  the  spirit 
of  general  justice,  the  echo  of  the  true  heart, 
the  voice  of  God.  Repeal  obstruction.  Elect 
officials  who  truly  consider  the  public  welfare. 
Depose  the  "mighty,"  the  ^' potentes"  of  the 
empire  of  "real  estate,"  finance  and  taxation. 
Luke  I.  52.  And  "finance"  is  a  thing  that  hath 
an  end.  Now  it  is  fined,  finished,  ended  and 
left  in  the  past.    Mat.  XXIV.  1,2. 

Depose  the  arrogant,  fill  the  hungry  with 
Good  Things  and  let  Israel  remember  Mercy, 
St.  Mary  (Consolatrix  Afflictorum).  Luke  I. 
47-54. 

The  true  voice,  the  voice  of  God,  is  echoed 
in  the  just  sentiment  and  it  calls  for  general 
justice.  Install  the  government  of  Intelligence. 
Overcome  the  government  of  the  Boastful  Hog. 
Just  government  is  truly  adjusted  to  the  natural 
plan  and  it  is  the  government  of  Divine  Justice 
approved  of  God.  It  is  not  the  government  of 
the  enemy,  the  adversary,  the  Prince  of  Property 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  111 

and  of  poverty.    Mat.  IV.  9,  10.    Luke  IV.  6-8. 

By  passing  money  from  hand  to  hand  control 
over  men  is  passed  and  it  may  be  said  that  the 
government  is  passed,  for  the  government  or 
activity  of  capitalism  consists  in  the  work  for 
(the  Power  of)  money.  And  by  counting 
it  the  sovereignty  of  capitalism  is  accounted. 
TTierefore  the  parable  of  Caesar's  penny  and 
also  the  expression  "the  almighty  dollar."  And 
also  for  this  reason  some  call  money  "frozen 
labor,"  but  it  is  not  labor  that  has  been  done 
for  it  that  is  "frozen,"  but  the  labor  that  will  be 
done  for  it,  that  is  controlled.  Overthrow 
ownership  and  the  money  power  dies,  the  bubble 
of  "wealth"  bursts  and  "economic"  calamities 
cease. 

If  flour  be  consumed  by  fire,  the  world  loses 
its  utility,  and  the  owner  his  power  to  deny  its 
use.  Mankind  is  harmed  by  the  burning  of  the 
flour,  which  involves  concomitantly  the  loss  of 
its  utility  or  power  of  subministering  to  human 
happiness,  and  this  loss  is  uneconomical,  averse 
to  good  housekeeping.     Upbuild.     Bless.     Emi- 


112       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

power.  Ennoble.  Fulfill.  We  see  the  light  and 
hear  the  voice  beyond. 

Steadfastness,  Courage,  Persistence!  Do  the 
good  work  of  Faith,  Reason,  Justice,  Truth  and 
Mercy!  Weary  not  in  well  doing!  Overcome 
ownership  and  you  shall  see  the  government  of 
the  true  peace,  the  City  of  Zion,  the  house  of 
Israel,  the  New  Jerusalem,  the  glorious  bride,  the 
Kingdom  of  God,  the  vision  of  the  prophets 
materialized,  incarnated  or  "made  flesh."  Rev. 
XXI.  Ml,  22-27.  XXII.  And  forever  she  shall 
glorify  the  Earth  and  fill  the  world  with  good 
things. 

Peace,  the  peace  of  healthful  growth  and  of 
happy  accomplishment,  shall  be  with  you.  And 
the  world  at  peace  is  the  world  at  good  work. 
In  the  world  there  are  many  pleasant  dwelling 
places.  I  come  to  deliver  to  each  of  you  the 
place  prepared  for  you.  John  XIV.  2.  Fulfill 
the  destiny  or  plan  outlined.  Live  unlimitedly 
the  glory  of  the  God  within  you.  Reach  the 
goal  of  the  glorified.  Have  Life  abundantly, 
follow  the  Way,  the  Truth,  and  the  Life;   and 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT         113 

you  shall  have  eternal  (continuous)  (perma- 
nent) health  and  happiness.  Install  mercy,  not 
sacrifice ;  kindness,  not  ownership.  Mat.  IX.  1 3. 
XII.  7,  17-21,  25-50. 

In  this  book,  and  for  convenience  in  discuss- 
ing value  and  money;  the  word  "commodity" 
means  only  merchandise  dealt  in  by  weight. 
Learn  the  idea  of  specific  or  relative  gravity  or 
of  the  relation  or  comparison  of  equi-volume 
weights.  In  this,  the  weights  of  an  equal  volume 
of  different  substances  are  compared  to  the 
weight  of  this  volume  of  some  one  of  these 
counted  as  1.  This  one  of  these  is  called  the 
standard.  Relate  weight  to  volume  as  if  weight 
were  dissolved  in  volume.  For  instance,  cast  lead 
as  related  to  water  has  the  specific  gravity  1 1 .352, 
which  means  it  is  1 1 .352  times  as  heavy  as  water, 
or  if  any  bulk  of  water  weigh  one  pound  the 
same  bulk  of  cast  lead  weighs  1 1 .352  pounds,  or, 
as  related  to  bulk  or  volume,  cast  lead  is  11.352 
times  as  heavy  as  water.  Relate  value  to  weight 
as  if  value  were  dissolved  in  weight.  Money  is 
the    standardized    commodity    or    the    standard 


114       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

commodity.  And  the  relative  value  of  different 
commodities  are  the  same  as  the  ascertained  or 
specific  values  of  an  equal  weight  of  those  com- 
modities as  related  to  the  value  of  a  select  one 
of  them  counted  as  1 .  (This  select  one  is  the 
standard;  i.  e.,  the  money.) 

In  modern  times  money  is  made  of  pure  silver 
and  also  of  silver  alloyed  with  copper  and  also 
of  gold  alloyed  with  copper.  Silver  alloyed  with 
copper  is  used  for  making  money  in  but  few 
countries.  China  is  the  only  country  wherein 
pure  silver  is  money.  No  country  makes  money 
of  pure  gold.  Most  countries  make  money  of 
gold  alloyed  with  copper.  And  in  most  of  these 
it  is  .900  fine  or  nine-tenths  gold.  But  in 
England,  Turkey  and  Portugal  it  is  eleven- 
twelfths  gold  (22  carats  or  .916  2/3  fine).  The 
monetary  system  of  Canada  corresponds  to  that 
of  the  U.  S.  Australia,  and  most  other  British 
countries  use  pounds,  shillings  and  pence.  British 
money  is  22  carat  gold,  or  gold  22  carats  fine; 
a  carat  in  this  sense  is  a  twenty-fourth.  The 
U.  S.  uses  thousandths.     And  U.  S.  money  is 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  115 

.900  "fine."  "Fine"  in  this  sense  means  pure. 
U.  S.  money  is  nine-tenths  gold  and  one-tenth 
copper.  U.  S.  silver  coins  are  also  .900  fine. 
These  are  nine-tenths  or  .900  silver  and  one- 
tenth  copper. 

The  money  of  the  U.  S.  is  its  minted  gold,  its 
gold  coin.  Other  things  called  U.  S.  money  are 
falsely  so-called  and  are  representative  of  money, 
and  being  as  "good"  in  common  U.  S.  com- 
merce are  therefore  loosely  called  money.  These 
are  representative  or  token,  called  so  because 
they  are  token,  tooken,  or  taken,  instead  of 
money,  and  of  these  are  the  silver,  the  nickel, 
and  the  copper  coins  of  the  U.  S.  which  are 
tokens  or  token  coins,  and  also  the  paper  tokens 
of  the  U.  S.  usually  called  "paper  money."  These 
tokens  are  like  gambling  "chips"  or  spiel-marks. 
Whoever  clearly  sees  that  the  gold  coin  or  gold 
coinage  of  the  U.  S.  is  its  only  money  has  a 
clear  idea.  And  this  clear  idea  is  essential  to  the 
intelligent  consideration  of  the  welfare  of  the 
people  of  the  U.  S.  and  of  the  world. 

Distinguish  the  value  of  a  U.  S.   gold  coin 


116      THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

from  the  thing  itself  and  from  the  weight  of  the 
thing  itself.  Value  in  the  U.  S.  is  expressed  and 
accounted  by  means  of  the  value  of  the  "dollar." 
This  name  "dollar"  is  defined  by  an  act  of 
Congress  and  its  legal  material  substance  is  25.8 
grains  of  alloy,  nine-tenths  gold  and  one-tenth 
copper,  which  is  not  money  until  it  has  been 
minted  or  moneted  by  the  U.  S.  mint  and  thus 
received  the  proper  name  and  weight  and  certifi- 
cate. It  is  then  U.  S.  money,  not  before  and 
it  is  then  the  "dollar"  (of  the  U.  S.  A.).  The 
money  of  the  U.  S.  consists  of  dollars  and  is 
the  gold  coin  of  the  U.  S. 

The  sign  of  the  dollar  of  the  U.  S.  is  $,  a 
contraction  of  the  Spanish  word  "peso,"  plural 
"pesos,"  meaning  weight,  plural  weights,  and 
was  used  by  the  Spaniards  before  the  English 
colonies  of  N.  A.  were  planted.  It  came  to 
these  colonies  through  trade  with  Spain  and  with 
Spanish  America,  and  through  the  use  of  the 
Spanish  peso  or  silver  monetary  unit ;  which  wm 
also  the  monetary  unit  of  the  British  Colonies 
on  the  continent  of  N.  A.  at  the  time  of  the 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT         117 

American  Revolution  and  for  some  time  before 
and  after.  And  in  English  a  peso  was  called  a 
* 'dollar.**  The  legal  monetary  unit  was  "the 
Spanish  milled  (i.  e.  minted)  dollar."  A  "milled" 
edge  cannot  be  elegantly  put  upon  a  coin  by 
hand. 

The  word  "dollar"  is  taken  from  Dutch  daler, 
German  thaler,  the  name  of  a  silver  piece  first 
coined  in  Joachimsthal  about  the  year  1518 
and  called  in  German  a  Joachimsthaler,  or  thaler, 
Dutch  daler,  English  dollar.  The  sign  $  was 
originally  a  script  pp  meaning  pesos,  and  in 
times  of  the  American  Revolution  the  S  was  re- 
versed like  a  Z,  which  is  the  way  Spaniards  write 
it,  and  which  is  like  writing  a  script  p  with  two 
downward  strokes.  An  example  of  this  old 
latin  way  of  making  the  plural  by  doubling  the 
first  letter  is  LL.D.  Doctor  of  Laws,  Legum 
Doctor  (of)  Laws  Doctor.  The  expression 
"milled  dollar,**  meaning  machine-made  dollar, 
was  used  to  exclude  Spanish  and  Spanish-Ameri- 
can coins  made  by  hand  and  sometimes  called 
"cut  money.'*     In  those  times  these  coins  were 


118       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

not  uncommon  in  Mexico,  C.  A.  and  the  W.  I. 
and  were  in  some  use  in  parts  of  Mexico  up  to 
fifty  years  ago.  And  in  times  of  the  American 
Revolution  they  were  made  in  considerable 
quantity. 

Money  always  has  a  numerically  constant 
value  to  any  given  weight.  One  dollar  may  buy 
at  different  times  more  or  less  wheat,  but  this 
fluctuation  or  variation  is  charged  or  imputed 
to  the  (value  of  the)  wheat.  Wheat  is  said 
to  fluctuate  in  value  and  gold  money  to  have 
a  fixed  value.  Any  weight  of  wheat  has  a 
numerically  changeable  value.  Any  weight  of 
money  has  a  numerically  constant  value.  (This 
numerical  fixity  is  a  matter  of  mortal  decree — 
and  is  not  of  physical  fact.)  A  constant  unit 
weight  of  a  definite  commodity  is  given  a  con- 
stant unit  value  and  this  commodity  is  then 
called  money.  This  invention  is  a  very  early 
one  and  greatly  facilitated  commerce,  which 
before  this  or  without  this,  is  sometimes  called 
"barter,**  a  crude  method  of  commerce. 

The  unit  of  commercial  account  in  the  U.  S. 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT         119 

is  the  value  of  the  dollar,  which  in  the  dollar 
is  always  related  as  I  value  to  I  weight,  and 
therefore  so  related  throughout  all  the  millions 
of  dollars  or  throughout  all  U.  S.  money.  Money 
is  therefore  said  to  have  a  constant  value  and 
has  a  constant  numerical  commercial  account 
value  to  any  definite  weight.  The  ownership  of 
a  monetary  unit  is  the  unit  of  ownership.  And 
in  the  possession  of  a  monetary  unit  one  is 
surely  possessed  of  its  value,  the  unit  of  value. 
But  in  the  possession  of  other  property,  the 
quantity  of  it  that  shall  have  value  equal  to 
the  value  of  a  monetary  unit  is  not  fixed,  and 
is  often  very  variable.  Therefore  the  monetary 
unit  becomes  the  unit  of  wages,  and  its  value 
(or  equi-valent)  the  unit  of  (the  power  of) 
ownership  and  this  is  the  "unit  of  account"  in 
commercial  exchange.  Commerce  or  "com- 
mercial exchange"  is  the  interchange  of  owner- 
ship. The  "unit  of  value"  is  the  standard 
package. 

And    money,    of    course,    is    a    useful    and 
beneficent  thing — in  Capitalism.      It  helpeth  a 


120      THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

niggard's  left  hand  to  keep  his  right  hand — 
from  giving.  And  Capitalism  is  churlish,  in- 
humane, cruel,  sordid  and  hateful.  Luke  VL 
38,  49.  The  value  of  the  (ownership  of  the) 
monetary  unit  is  used  in  commerce  or  in  ex- 
change, for  all  values  are  reduced  to  or  standard- 
ized by  this  value.  It  is  the  value  of  the  mone- 
tary unit  that  is  the  "standard  of  value"  or 
standard  (unit)  value,  the  commercial  account 
unit  (the  standard  commercial  package)  ("the 
medium  of  exchange")  (the  means  whereby 
commercial  exchange  is  effected)  (the  com- 
mercial unit). 

A  commodity  at  12  cents  a  pound  is  four 
times  as  valuable  as  one  at  3  cents  a  pound. 
This  sets  forth  or  expresses  relative  value  which 
is  relative  power  of  ownership.  It  is  related  by 
(the  use  of  the  value  of)  weights  of  money.  Or, 
the  use  of  weights  of  money  relates  value.  The 
price  that  any  commodity  sells  for  shows  its 
relative  value,  because  it  states  its  value  in  the 
value  of  some  weight  of  money.  Money  always 
sells  at  a  fixed  value  per  fixed  weight  or  at  a 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT         121 

value  fixed  per  weight  and  U.  S.  money  always 
sells  at  1  value  per  25.8  grain. 

The  relative  value  of  money  is  1. 

This  is  natural  to,  or  is  born  of;  the  fact  that 
the  value  of  the  monetary  unit  is  1 . 

In  the  commercial  exchange  of  any  two  com- 
modities (articles  sold  by  weight)  the  relative 
value  is  the  inverse  of  the  relative  weight.  The 
relative  value  is  1  divided  by  the  relative  weight 
and  the  relative  weight  is  1  divided  by  the 
relative  value.  For  instance,  if  a  commodity 
worth  1 2  cents  per  pound  exchange  for  a  com- 
modity worth  3  cents  per  pound,  its  weight  in 
this  exchange  will  be  1/4  the  weight  of  the 
other,  it  will  be  1/4  as  heavy  and  4/1  as 
valuable.  The  inverse  of  any  number  is  one 
divided  by  that  number.  (Value  varies  inversely 
as  weight). 

In  any  exchange  of  money  for  any  com- 
modity, the  price  shows  this  relationship  of 
weight  and  similarly  also  shows  this  relationship 
of  value.  The  value  in  the  price  balances  the 
value  in  the  weight  of  commodity  it  exchanges 


122       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

for.  The  phenomenon  obeys  the  law  of  the 
lever  or  of  the  steel-yard  or  roman  balance,  and 
is  of  a  law  of  the  (balancing  of  the)  (stability 
of  the)  (compensation  of  the)  (equipoise  of 
the)  (constitution  of  the)  (regulation  of  the) 
(ratiocination  of  the)  universe.  Now,  in  any 
exchange  of  commodities  the  value  per  pound 
multiplied  by  the  number  of  pounds  on  one 
side  of  the  exchange;  is  equal  to  the  value  per 
pound  multiplied  by  the  number  of  pounds  on 
the  other  side  of  the  exchange;  and  this  equality 
may  be  called  a  trade  balance,  for  the  values  are 
equal,  or  the  one  value  equals  the  other. 

The  true  definition  of  "price"  is  weight  of 
money,  1  dollar  is  a  price,  1  cent  is  a  price, 
viz.:   a  hundredth  dollar. 

There  is  but  one  "denomination"  of  money  in 
the  U.  S.  which  is  the  dollar  and  this  is  divided 
into  hundredths  called  cents,  etc.  A  half  dollar 
is  50  cents,  a  tenth  is  10  cents  or  one  dime, 
"disme,"  old  law  French  for  tenth.  "Disme" 
(now  dime)  was  the  word  used  in  the  original 
act  of  the  U.  S.  Congress  of  1  783,  establishing 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT         123 

a  new  monetary  system;  and  providing  for  a 
mint. 

The  price  of  any  commodity  as  stated  or  ex- 
pressed in  the  markets ;  that  is,  the  ordinary  price 
or  everyday  price  statement  of  commerce;  is  a 
statement  of  the  weight  of  money  that  will  ex- 
change for  the  given  weight  of  that  commodity. 
It  is  the  (statement  of  the)  weight  of  money 
equivalent  to  the  given  weight  of  that  com- 
modity (equivalent— equal  in  value).  If  you 
ask  a  merchant  what  a  thing  is  worth  or  what 
its  value  is,  he  answers  by  stating  a  weight  of 
money;  a  price. 

An  avoirdupois  pound  contains  7000  grains. 
A  U.  S.  dollar  contains  25.8  grains.  Divide 
7000  by  25.8  and  the  result  is  271.31 79+, 
which  we  may  in  this  book  sometimes  write  as 
271.31+,  or  sometimes  simply  271.31.  In  a 
pound  of  U.  S.  money  there  are  271.31  dollars, 
and  it  exchanges  for  271.31  pounds  of  any  sub- 
stance selling  at  $1  per  pound.  At  1  cent  per 
pound  you  could  buy  one  hundred  times  as  much 
as  at  $1  per  pound. 


124      THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

Of  any  commodity  at  I  cent  per  pound  you 
could  buy  27131+  pounds  with  a  pound  of 
U.  S.  money.  U.  S.  money  is  27131  times  as 
valuable  as  any  commodity  at  1  cent  per  pound. 

Any  market  report  of  the  price  of  commodi- 
ties is  a  statement  of  these  relative  values  and 
relative  weights,  but  men  do  not  commonly 
know  this. 

Let  P  be  the  written  sign  for  any  commodity, 
for  instance  the  English  name,  and  let  p  be  the 
price  of  P  in  cents  per  pound  and  let  n  be  the 
result  sought,  being  the  number  pounds  of  P  that 
will  exchange  for  a  pound  of  U.  S.  money.  Then 
we  have  the  general  equation  p:  I  :  :27131  :n, 
or  the  general  statement  pn  =  27131.  If  p  be 
10  then  n  is  2713.1  or  at  the  price  10  cents 
per  pound  it  would  take  2713.1  pounds  of  any 
commodity  to  be  equivalent  or  equal  in  value 
to  a  pound  of  U.  S.  money. 

If  in  the  above  equation  n  be  1  then  p  must 
be  27131,  which  is  the  price  per  pound  of  U.  S. 
money,  in  cents. 

In  every  market  price  report  of  commodities. 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT         125 

the  (value  of  the)  weight  of  money  on  one  side 
balances  or  is  counted  as  balancing  the  (value 
of  the)  weight  of  the  commodity  on  the  other 
side. 

And  in  every  market  price  report  of  every 
kind  the  value  (the  power  of  the  ownership) 
of  the  merchandise  on  one  side  balances  or  is 
counted  as  balancing  the  value  of  the  mer- 
chandise on  the  other.  The  value  on  one  side 
of  a  market  report  (a  commercial  price  or  price 
report)  is  considered  as  equal  to  the  value  on 
the  other  side  and  on  one  side  the  value  is 
always  stated  as,  the  value  of  a  weight  of 
money,  a  price. 

And  in  every  market  report,  the  value  is 
stated  as  the  value  of,  a  weight  of  money,  a 
price.     Price  is  weight  of  money. 

The  U.  S.  dollar  is  the  monetary  unit  or  unit 
weight  of  money  of  the  U.  S.  and  it  weighs 
25.8  grains.  It  has  the  weight  1  and  the  value  1 . 
U.  S.  money  is  271.31  times  as  valuable  as  any 
commodity  at  $1  per  pound,  or  (when  their 
weights   are   equal)    their   values   are   as    1    to 


126      THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

271.31,  and  (when  their  values  ewe  equal)  their 
weights  are  as  1  to  271.31.  But  the  one  is 
always  the  inverse  of  the  other,  or  the  weight  of 
the  money  (the  pound  of  the  money)  is  to  the 
weight  of  the  dollar  per  pound  commodity  as 
1  to  271.31 ;  and  the  (per  pound)  value  of  the 
dollar  per  pound  commodity  is  to  the  (per 
pound)  value  of  the  money  as  1  to  271.31. 
The  (per  pound)  value  of  money  compared 
to  the  (per  pound)  value  of  any  dolleu*  per 
pound  commodity  is  always  as  271.31  is 
to  1,  or  money  is  271.31  times  as  valuable 
as  dollar  per  pound  commodity.  The  propor- 
tion as  written  is  271.31  :  1  =  1  :  /^ii-si  or 
271.31  :  1  ::  1  :  Htlsi.  Now,  we  call  relative 
weight  "ratio,"  as  was  done  in  the  celebrated 
"free  silver"  controversy,  where  a  "ratio"  of 
16  to  1  was  demanded.  This  was  the  same  as 
demanding  the  relative  value  Vie  to  1,  or  16 
pounds  of  silver  for  1  pound  of  gold.  It  was 
an  attempt  at  dictating  the  exchange,  or  at  fixing 
the  price.  To  fix  the  price  of  commodities  is, 
of  course,  to  fix  the  weight  (weights)  at  which 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT         127 

they  shall  exchange.  The  relative  value  of  a 
commodity  (is  its  value  as  compared  to  the 
value  of  money  and)  is  equal  to  the  inverse  of 
its  ratio  and  its  ratio  is  equal  to  the  inverse  of 
its  relative  value.  The  inverse  of  a  number 
is  one  divided  by  that  number. 

All  commercial  value  relates  to  the  value  of 
the  monetary  unit;  and  the  value  in  a  U.  S. 
dollar  is  related  to  weight  in  the  proportion  of 
I  value  to  1  weight;  viz.:  25.8  grain.  And 
U.  S.  dollars  constitute  U.  S.  money.  In  other 
commodities  1  value  may  relate  to  a  different 
weight,  as,  when  potatoes  are  at  1  cent  per 
pound  1  value  or  I  power  of  ownership,  relates 
to  100  pounds  of  potatoes;  but  in  U.  S.  money 
1  value  relates  to  the  constant  unit  weight, 
25.8  grain,  or  the  unit  of  value  is  always  the 
value  of  the  monetary  unit,  and  the  monetary 
unit  of  the  U.  S.  invariably  weighs  25.8  grain. 
Power  of  ownership  is  sometimes  called  ''pur- 
chasing power." 

A  table  of  ratios  at  various  prices  expressed 
in  cents  per  pound  is  hereinafter  given.     The 


128       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

value  of  any  unit  of  merchandise  is  expressed 
by  means  of  a  price  or  weight  of  money.  A 
unit  of  merchandise  may  be  a  day's  labor,  or  a 
horse,  or  a  house,  or  an  acre  of  land,  or  a  pound 
of  tea,  and  in  this  last  case  it  is  sold  by  weight 
and  its  price  would  bear  a  specific  or  express 
relation  to  its  weight;  not  so  in  the  cases  of  the 
horse,  the  acre  of  land,  the  house,  and  the  day's 
labor. 

To  express  the  value  of  any  unit  of  mer- 
chandise, a  couplet  is  formed;  one  of  which  is 
the  unit  of  merchandise,  and  the  other  a  weight 
of  money,  a  price.  This  is  (the  statement  of) 
a  trade  equation  or  trade  balance.  Sugar  is  5 
cents  per  pound.  The  pound  of  sugar  is  the 
unit  of  merchandise,  and  5  cents  is  the  equiva- 
lent (equi-valent)  weight  of  money.  The  price 
of  a  cow  is  $100.  A  cow  in  the  market  is  a 
unit  of  merchandise.  A  price  is  a  weight  of 
money.  The  value  of  1  dollar  is  always  I  (unit 
of  value).  The  value  of  1  pound  avoirdupois 
of  U.  S.  money  is  always  271.31  (units  of 
value).     It  is  always  at  1  value  to  I  weight,  or 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  129 

1  value  to  25.8  grains.  It  is  always  standard, 
or  1  to  1 ,  or  the  value  of  U.  S.  money  is  always 
arithmetically  constant  at  1  to  1 ,  or  at  1  to  25.8 
grains;  25.8  grains  is  I,  viz.:  1  weight.  25.8 
grains  here  means  the  weight  25.8  times  as 
heavy  as  1  grain — or  a  25.8  grain  weight 
counted  as  a  unit  weight. 

The  monetary  unit  is  the  unit  of  the  mer- 
chandise money.  Its  acquisition  is  the  object  of 
the  activity  called  commerce.  To  gain  it  is  the 
object  of  life  in  commercialism.  Its  ownership 
commands  wage  earners  or  salary  serfs.  In  its 
acquisition  is  the  activity  of  commercialism.  All 
money  may  be  called  wage  money.  It  com- 
mands all  wage  slaves.  And  money  is  the 
symbol  of  the  power  of  (hell)  the  government 
of  the  devil. 

It  is  the  *'mark"  (of  the  government)  "of  the 
beast."  Rev.  XIII.  16.  17.  XIV.  9-11.  XVI.  1. 
2.  XVII.  8-11.  Money  is  used  for  dealing  in 
ownership,  the  purpose  of  and  practice  of  com- 
merce, because  its  ownership  commands  salary 


130       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

slaves.  As  value  is  the  indicator  of  the  power 
of  ownership  and  as  this  power  is  the  command 
or  sovereignty  over  wage  slaves,  you  mentally 
may  regard  yourself  as  dealing  in  value;  but 
you  really  deal  in  what  value  indicates  (owner- 
ship, i.  e.  oppression,  tyrannical  taxation).  Luke 
II.  I .  You  deal  in  wage  slavery,  the  servitude  or 
allegiance  of  the  ownership  man,  the  Mammon 
man;  the  tax,  tribute,  wage  or  money  man;  the 
Mammonist,  capitalist;  the  commercial  "busi- 
ness" man;  a  sort  of  a  partially  humanized 
gorilla;  who  calls  himself  the  Homo  Sapiens, 
and  who  is  a  low  variety  of  man  as  compared 
with  the  great  man  of  the  future,  the  glorified 
man — the  man  of  the  Kingdom  of  God.  (The 
Son  of  man,  the  true  man — the  universal  man 
of  the  humane  race.)  Grand  ideas,  great  in- 
spirations are  angels,  messengers  of  truth,  and 
they  ennoble,  transform,  transfigure  and  glorify 
men  and  glorify  their  civilization,  their  state  of 
life,  their  state  in  the  Life.  Luke  I.  11-17, 
28-33,  35-37,  41-45,  46-55,  67-79.  Luke  II. 
9-14,  25-35,  36-38,  49.   Mat.  XVIII.  10.   Mark 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT    131 

X.    15.      They   make    great    or   magnify   man. 
St.  Mary  Luke  L  46-55. 

Capitalism  is  in  the  negation  of  the  Spirit. 
The  Light  shines  and  the  darkness  comprehends 
it  not.  The  truth  shines  and  (he  who  is  in) 
capitaHsm  comprehends  it  not,  for  the  Truth  is 
not  in  capitalism  nor  capitalism  in  the  Truth. 
John  XVIL  1 7.  Capitalism  is  allegiance  to 
Ownership  and  Ownership  is  a  Satan  to  be 
cast  behind  you,  a  darkness  or  devil  or  diabolism 
of  the  past.  John  I.  5,  etc.  Luke  IV.  Mat.  IV. 
The  power  of  ownership  is  expressed  by  means 
of  money.  The  thing  commanded  is  the  service 
of  men.  The  wage-earning  world  works  for 
money.  The  thing  controlled  is  the  service  of 
slaves  to  the  "Money  Power.**  The  Money 
Power  is  the  "right**  of  ownership,  the  "Devil." 
The  money-taking,  wage-earning  or  salaried 
world  is  enslaved  to  the  dark  empire  of  "real 
estate**  and  "finance.**  It  works  to  exclude  or 
damn  men  and  to  aggrandize  debt.  You  shall 
abolish  ownership  and  work  only  for  the  good 
of  mankind,  the  distribution  and  abundance  of 


132       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

blessing.  Luke  VI.  38.  You  shall  preserve  and 
upbuild  the  temple  of  universal  happiness  and 
of  eternal  glory.  And  the  Spirit  of  truth  guides 
you  into  All  or  divine  or  universal  or  eternal 
truth.  John  XVI.  13.  15,   II  Cor.  IV.  18. 

The  utility  of  money  consists  in  its  value, 
power  of  ownership,  or  "purchasing  power." 
A  unit  of  this  is  expressed  in  the  value  of  the 
dollar  and  consists  in  its  command  over  the 
services  of  wage  slaves,  the  command  which 
among  the  heathen  is  given  to  (wage  or  money) 
masters  over  (wage)  slaves.  They  who  are  at 
heart  wage  slaves  are  at  heart  capitalists  and 
they  work  for  the  (power  of  the)  soul  of  the 
dollar.  To  work  for,  is  to  worship;  to  serve; 
and  men  willingly  work  for  what  they  love; 
so  it  is  that  capitalists  or  wage-slaves,  worship 
the  (power  of  the)  dolleir,  the  Money  Power,  the 
Devil.  They  worship  the  power  of  ownership, 
the  money  power,  the  devil  ("Mammon"). 
They  hold  dear  the  religion  that  degrades  and 
oppreMee  them.  They  ceu'ess  their  chcdns  and 
fight    for    them.      They    worship    the    idol    of 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT         133 

negation,  repression,  oppression,  darkness,  bru- 
tality, treachery  and  cruelty,  the  devil.  They 
grovel  in  their  superstition  and  consider  this 
degradation  to  be  good  citizenship.  They  are 
pitiable  and  lost  souls  sitting  in  chains  and  in 
darkness.  And  they  can  rise  only  when  freed 
of  their  bonds.  And  to  gain  heaven  they  must 
be  freed  of  their  chains.  And  "they  have  a 
world  to  gain  and  only  their  chains  to  lose" 
(Karl  Marx).   Luke  IV.  17-19.    Is.  LXL  1,  2. 

Property  is  plunder.  Ownership  is  theft. 
"La  propiete  c'est  le  vol,"  or  "property  is  theft" 
(Pierre  J.  Proudhon).   Mat.  XXIV.  43,  44. 


CHAPTER  V. 


Divide  7000  by  25.8  the  quotient  271.312o%58 
shows  that  with  one  pound  of  U.  S.  money  you 
can  buy  of  any  commodity  at: 
$  1 .00  per  pound 27 1 .3 1  +  pounds 


.10 
.05 
.20 
.01 
.02 
.03 
.04 
.05 
.06 
.07 
.08 
.09 


2713.10 
5426.20 
1356.55 
27131. + 
13565.50 
9043.66 
6782.75 
5426.20 
4521.83 
3875.85 
3391.37 
3014.55 


Therefore  the  ratio  of  any  commodity  at: 

1   cent  per  pound  is 27 131. + 

2 - 13565.50 

3  "       "        "       "........ 9043.66 

4  "       ••        "       "..... 6782.75 


136       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

5  cents  per  pound  is 5426.20 

6  • 4521.83 

7 3875.85 

8 3391.37 

9 3014.55 

10 2713.10 

15 „ 1808.73 

20 1356.55 

100 271.31 

1000  "   "   "   " 27.131 

10000 ;• 2.7131 

27131 1.00 

54262  "   • 0.5 

20000 1.3565 

1695ir*   "   ••   " 16.00 

And  this  last  is  the  price  of  silver  in  cents  per 
pound  at  the  rate  of  1 6  to  1 .  It  is  the  (weight 
of)  United  States  money  (gold  coin)  in  (gold) 
cents  that  it  would  take  to  buy  a  (an  avoirdu- 
pois) pound  of  silver  at  the  ratio  of  16  to  1. 
If  on  this  condition  silver  were  the  money,  the 
same  prop>ortion  would  be  true  as  to  weight,  but 
we  would  call  the  weight  of  silver  the  price,  and 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  137 

its  "ratio"  would  be  I,  and  its  relative  value 
would  be  1  and  the  ratio  of  gold  Vie  and  its  rela- 
tive value  16.  Gold  would  be  relatively  16 
times  as  valuable  as  the  money  (silver).  When 
you  give  money  for  something  you  call  it  buy- 
ing; when  you  give  something  for  money  you 
call  it  selling.  You  sell  (something)  to  obtain 
(the  ownership  of)  a  price;  you  buy  with  (the 
power  or  ownership  of)  a  price  to  obtain  (the 
ownership  of)  something.  Price  is  weight  of 
money.  (You  deal  in  command  over  wage 
slaves,  wage  slavery,  Capitalism,  capitalistic  ser- 
vitude or  government.)  You  deal  with  owner- 
ship or  money  power  and  for  this  and  under 
this,  ownership  or  money  power  slaves  work. 
And  wage  slaves  are  money  power  slaves,  slaves 
to  the  money  power.  (And  the  power  of  owner- 
ship is  the  power  of  money.  It  is  the  power 
counted  out  by  means  of  money.) 

Now,  referring  to  the  above  table,  the  corre- 
sponding relative  values  are  the  inverse  of  these 
ratios,  for  example,  at  10  cents  per  pound  the 
ratio  is  2713.1  and  the  relative  value  is  1  divided 


138       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

by  2713.1.  This  commodity  in  commerce  is 
2713.1  as  heavy  as  money,  or  its  value  is  Htis-i 
as  great  as  money.  This  is  the  way  it  balances 
in  trade.  The  ratio  of  any  United  States  com- 
modity selling  at  27131  cents  per  pound  is  1, 
and  its  relative  value  is  1 .  United  States  money 
always  has  this  distinction.  It  is  always  selling 
or  "worth"  27131  cent  per  pound. 

Money  is  the  standardized  commercial  com- 
modity. Money  is  the  commodity  whose  value 
is  standardized  at  1  value  per  1  weight.  By 
comparing  the  value  of  each  article  of  commerce 
with  the  value  of  (the  standard  quantity  of  the 
standard  article  of  commerce,  which  is)  the 
monetary  unit,  the  values  of  all  articles  of  com- 
merce are  commercially  intercompared. 

The  value  of  some  weight  of  a  commodity  is 
expressed  by  naming  a  price  or  weight  of  money. 
And  the  value  of  the  unit  or  standard  weight 
of  money  is  always  1.  The  standard  monetary 
unit  of  the  United  States  is  25.8  grains  of 
United  States  minted  gold,  which  is  United 
States  gold  coin. 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  139 

Value  itself  is  a  natural  mathematical  or  rela- 
tive voice.  It  relates,  indicates  or  points  out  the 
power  of  ownership,  which  is  also  the  control  or 
command  of  men,  sometimes  called  "purchasing 
power,"  for  the  power  of  ownership  is  command 
of  men  and  is  the  only  thing  purchased  in  com- 
merce. The  command  of  money  is  the  gift  of 
the  devil.  The  command  of  men  is  the  gift  of 
God  and  shall  not  be  purchased  with  money.  St. 
Peter.  Acts  VIII.  20.  Rev.  XVIII.  13.  The 
commissary  shall  not  be  eaten  nor  the  quar- 
ters used  controlled  nor  occupied  by  owners. 
And  we  also  and  consequently  evict  merchants 
and  thieves.  XVIII.  II.  We  overthrow  Capital- 
ism, the  Mother  of  Merchants.  Rev.  XVII.  5; 
XVIII.  2. 

In  the  metric  system,  the  number  or  name  for 
any  volume  of  water  is  always  the  same  as  the 
number  or  name  for  its  weight.  A  litre  of  water 
always  weighs  1  kilo.  Any  number  of  kilos  of 
water  is  the  same  number  of  litres  of  water. 
Here  the  unit  volume  has  the  unit  weight.  The 
number  for  the  weight  of  money  is  always  the 


140       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

number  for  its  value.  Its  own  value  is  num- 
bered by  the  number  for  its  own  weight  as 
weighed  by  the  weight  of  the  monetary  unit. 
Its  own  value  is  numbered  by  the  number  of  its 
own  monetary  units.  This  is  because  the  mon- 
etary unit  has  the  unit  weight  and  also  the  unit 
value.  And  this  is  why  you  have  the  name 
1  dollar  for  the  "thing  dollar"  and  the  same 
number  or  name  for  the  "value  dollar."  Own- 
ership is  exchanged  in  commerce  at  the  rate  of 
the  ownership  of  the  dollar.  The  standard  pack- 
age of  ownership  is  the  ow^nership  of  a  dollar. 
The  standeu-d  package  of  United  States  Com- 
merce is  the  (power  of  the  ownership  of)  value 
of  a  United  States  dollar. 

Value  invariably  points  to  ownership.  Mis- 
take not  the  warning  for  the  crime.  Value  is  an 
admonitory  signal  and  even  the  word  "moneta" 
(money)  warns.  And  the  work  for  ownership 
is  the  service  of  ownership  and  is  the  worship 
of  ownership  and  is  the  love  of  money.  I  Tim. 
VI.  10,  1-9,  1-21.  And  the  prophets  warn  you 
that  the  love  of  money  is  the  root  of  all  evil, 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  141 

the  hatred  of  men.  Acts  VIII.  20,  21 .  And  the 
power  of  the  Holy  Spirit  supersedes  the  power 
of  money.  Money  and  merchants  shall  perish. 
Acts  VIII.  1 8,  20.  Men  shall  reject  ownership  in 
totality.  Ownership  fades  away  from  the  face 
of  the  earth.  Men  rise  to  a  higher  life,  a  higher 
sphere,  a  new  civilization.  John  XII.  32.  XIV. 
3.  And  the  multitude  of  the  heavenly  host  joy- 
fully sing  of  peace  on  earth,  for  a  new  world  is 
born.  Luke  II.  12-14.   XIX.  38.   Rev.  V.  13. 

Abolish  ownership  and  immediately  there 
shall  be  one  fold  and  one  shepherd.  (World- 
wide Peace  forever.)    John  X.  16,  10,  1. 

Discussion  concerning  money  would  be  easier 
if  the  value  of  the  monetary  unit  had  one  name, 
its  weight  another,  and  the  thing  itself  another. 
If  you  should  call  the  United  States  dollar  a 
"mere,"  its  value  a  "val"  and  its  weight  a 
"grav,"  then  you  might  say  1  mere  always 
weighs  1  grav  and  always  has  1  val.  Any  nuni- 
ber  of  meres  always  has  that  number  of  gravs 
and  that  number  of  vals.  The  "val"  is  the  mer- 
chant's "account  unit." 


142       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

The  mere  would  be  the  "thing"  dollar  of  25.8 
grains  or  I  grav  of  the  minted  gold  of  the 
United  States.  An  Eagle  would  be  10  meres, 
weigh  10  gravs  and  have  10  vals,  or  have  (the 
-value)   10  vals. 

All  commercial  value  relates  the  1  value  of 
the  1  weight  of  money.  It  relates  the  strength 
of  the  ownership  of  the  monetary  unit,  and  this 
is  its  command  in  money  or  salary  or  wage  serf- 
dom. 

The  ownership  of  the  monetary  unit  is  held  or 
related  at  one  constant  indication  of  the  strength 
or  power  of  ownership,  and  consequently  any 
weight  of  money  is  held  at  this  proportion  or  re- 
lation. 

Whenever  you  state  the  value  or  power  of 
ownership  or  purchasing  power  of  any  article  or 
unit  of  merchandise  you  state  a  weight  of 
money.  This  states  its  value.  The  price  of  a 
day's  labor  is  from  50  cents  to  $1 .50,  or  even  $5, 
or  even  higher.  The  price  of  a  horse  is  $100, 
of  a  ton  of  coal  $6,  or  $9,  or  $  1 4,  of  a  pound  of 
beef  20  cents,  of  a  pound  of  sugar  4  or  5  or  8 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT         143 

or  10  cents,  depending  usually  upon  the  pov- 
erty and  need  of  the  user,  the  greater  the  need 
the  higher  usually  the  price.  If  the  people 
would  demand  no  ownership  they  could  com- 
mand better  conditions,  the  true  democracy,  the 
greatest  good  to  the  whole  nation. 

Value  indicates  the  "dominion  of  the  gen- 
tiles," the  government  of  capitalists,  the  power, 
the  domination,  the  command  of  Capitalism,  this 
world  of  belief  in  ownership,  over  the  service, 
worship  or  work  of  men.  Mat.  XX.  25.  Capi- 
talists are  ruled  by  the  capitalistic,  or  wage  slav- 
ery and  commercial  idea,  and  the  general  gov- 
ernment known  as  "capitalism"  is  built  upon 
ownership.  Its  rock  is  common  negation,  the 
negation  of  the  community.  The  "Rock"  of  the 
Christ  is  common  union,  the  communion,  the 
community  of  the  unity  the  unity  of  the  com- 
munity, the  brotherhood  of  man,  the  (work  of 
the)  (public  spirit)  holy  spirit.  Mat.  III.  16,  17. 
And  there  shall  be  one  shepherd  and  one  fold. 
(World-wide  peace  forever.)  John  X.  16.  True 
patriotism   is  allegiance  to   the   government   or 


144       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

house  of  the  spirit  of  truth,  *'my  father's  house," 
the  true  patria.  Capitalists  are  patriots  of  Capi- 
talism, the  devil's  house,  hell.  They  are  sons 
and  heirs  of  the  devil.  Mat.  IV.  9.  The  true  de- 
mocracy is  the  true  theocracy  and  you  shall  be 
guided  by  teachers  of  truth.  John  XVII.  1 7. 
I  Peter  II.  9.  Ex.  XIX.  5,  6. 

In  commerce  it  is  better  probably  to  say  inter- 
change than  to  say  exchange,  for  commerce 
does  not  exchange  anything  off  of  or  away  from 
the  face  of  the  earth.  The  action  caused  by  the 
interchange  of  ownership  is  (the  activity  of) 
commerce.  Do  not  confound  commerce  with 
(the)  distribution  (of  goods).  Commerce  is  the 
distribution  of  negation  or  denial.  It  is  the  dis- 
tribution of  the  negation  of  God.  Transporta- 
tion is  transportation — carriage. 

In  commerce  each  exchange  forms  an  equa- 
tion. The  value  on  one  side  is  reckoned  as 
equal  to  the  value  on  the  other.  At  12  cents 
per  pound  4  pounds  of  any  commodity  will  ex- 
change for  16  pounds  of  any  commodity  at  3 
cents  per  pound.     In  any  exchange,  or,  rather, 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT         145 

interchange  of  commodities,  suppose  you  call 
the  commodity  on  one  side  A,  its  price  per  pound 
a,  and  its  number  of  pounds  w,  and  call  the 
commodity  on  the  other  side  B,  its  price  per 
pound  b,  and  its  number  of  pounds  x.  Now,  in 
any  exchange  of  A  for  B  you  state  all  weights 
in  pounds  and  all  prices  in  cents  and  you  have 
the  general  equation  for  all  such  exchanges: 
aw  =  bx. 

Suppose,  therefore,  in  aw  =  bx,  that  a  is  16, 
w  is  4  and  b  is  2,  you  would  have  16  times  4 
equals  2x,  or  64  =  2x,  32  =  x,  or  16  pounds 
of  the  commodity  A  (at  4  cents  per  pound) 
equals  32  pounds  of  B  (at  2  cents  per  pound). 

This  general  equation  always  holds  good.  In 
aw  =  bx,  suppose  that  a  is  5  and  w  is  16,  and  b 
is  1 0 ;  then  you  have  80  is  1  Ox,  or  8  is  x.  Then 
in  commerce  5  pounds  of  A  exchanges  for  or 
balances  8  pounds  of  B. 

Now  suppose  in  aw  =  bx  that  you  put  for  w 
1  and  for  a  27131;  you  will  then  have  27131 
equals  bx;  and  now  for  b  you  put  1,  then  you 
have  the  equation  27131  equals  x,  which  shows 


146       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

that  at  1  cent  per  pound  a  pound  of  United 
States  money  buys  27131  pounds.  It  is  always 
worth  27131  cents  per  pound,  and,  as  you  know 
how  much  of  any  commodity  it  buys  at  1  cent 
per  pound  you  can  make  a  table  showing  how 
much  it  buys  at  any  price  per  pound,  as  has  been 
demonstrated.  The  value  of  any  commodity  is 
considered  as  equal  to  the  value  of  the  weight 
of  money  exchanged  for  it.  But  exchanges  are 
frequently  made  reservedly  or  unfulfilledly  or 
procrastinatedly  or  in  debt  or  in  "credit"  or  the 
money  at  the  time  not  paid,  but  agreed  to  be 
paid  later.  So  that  what  is  usually  called  the 
credit  system  is  really  the  debit  or  debt  system. 

The  value  of  any  weight  of  money  is  always 
(arithmetically)  equal  to  its  own  weight  as 
weighed  or  divided  by  the  weight  of  the  mone- 
tary unit,  which  in  the  United  States  is  the  unit 
23.8  grains. 

Proof  consists  in  the  fulfillment  of  prediction. 
And  among  men,  teaching  is  the  showing  to 
others  of  what  one  has  before  seen  and  the 
others  not.     Anything  is  itself  and  never  any- 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT         147 

thing  else  nor  equal  to  anything  else.  An  equa- 
tion in  mathematics  is  two  statements  of  the 
same  fact — 6  plus  4  equals  7  plus  3,  or  in  fact 
10  is  10.  Two  or  many  things  may  obey  some 
specific  law,  as  every  point  upon  the  surface  of 
a  globe  is  at  one  distance  from  the  center, 
though  no  two  points  on  the  surface  of  that 
globe  can  possibly  be  the  same;  they  differ  in 
position.  Mathematical  proof  never  proves  any 
one  thing  to  be  equal  to  any  other,  but  it  fre- 
quently brings  unknown  things  or  relations  into 
the  realm  of  (human)  sight  or  knowledge.  It 
frequently  serves  to  clear  (the  human  mind) 
and  to  extend  or  enlarge  the  (human)  vision. 
It  serves  to  show  relations.  For  the  world  of 
material  things  about  us  is,  so  far  as  we  know, 
mathematically  regular.  This  physical  world 
seems  to  be  built  on  a  mathematical  plan,  and 
even  its  changes  and  all  its  variations  are  mathe- 
matical, so  that  mathematics  seems  to  furnish 
ladders,  stairways,  roadways,  etc.,  throughout 
the  structure.  The  natural  architecture  is  law- 
ful, regular,  and  mathematically  consistent. 


148       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

Prophecy  consists  of  long  sight  and  of  long 
hearing  and  therefore  of  prediction;  sooner  tell- 
ing, sooner  writing,  earlier  news,  greater  fore- 
sight, advanced  information. 

Any  commodity  commonly  accepted  as  money 
naturally  becomes  w^ages,  and  conversely  any 
commodity  established  as  wages  naturally  is 
used  for  money.  The  wage  vassal  is  naturally 
anxious  to  count  "purchasing  power"  and  so 
is  the  wage  lord.  To  the  wage  vassal  the  count- 
ing of  his  money  is  like  the  counting  of  his  hold 
upon  life,  and  often  like  the  counting  of  his 
dripping  blood.  To  the  wage  lord  the  counting 
of  his  money  is  like  the  counting  of  his  power, 
and  if  his  supply  of  money  is  easy  and  regular 
so  is  his  power. 

To  legally  fix  the  monetary  unit  is  to  legally 
establish  a  money.  Any  mass  of  money  is  made 
up  of  monetary  units.  In  commerce,  ownership 
or  command  over  hirelings  is  exchanged  or 
bought  and  sold.  Command  over  wage  earners 
or  over  the  industry  of  man  will  be  an  attribute 
of  ow^nership  as  long  as  ownership  is  legally  or 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT         149 

publicly  upheld  among  men.  Ownership  is  in 
opposition  to  the  stream  of  the  Free  and  Uni- 
versal Supply,  to  the  bounty  of  the  God  of 
Heaven  and  Earth.  It  is  a  damming  of  the 
blood  of  the  natural  Beneficence.  The  radical 
cure  for  the  ills  of  men  is  to  tear  ownership  up 
by  the  roots.    Mat.  XV.  9,  1 3.    John  X.  1 0. 

The  tribute-taking  interest  collects  rent,  inter- 
est and  profit  and  counts  it  in  money.  The  wage 
slave,  money  helot,  or  salary  serf,  interest  serves 
for  money  or  serves  degradedly,  ignobly,  and  is 
the  "servant  unto  tribute."  Gen.  XLIX.  14,  15. 
As  long  as  ownership  exists  the  money  power 
shall  rule  and  the  devil  shall  reign. 

All  servitude,  service  or  active  life  should  tend 
to  the  general  conservation,  happiness  and  ex- 
altation of  men  (of  the  best  in  men).  Men  who 
approve  of  men  working  for  wages  or  money 
are  capitalists  or  slaves  of  the  ownership  system. 
Its  abolition  results  in  the  evanescence  of  the 
debt  of  the  world  and  in  the  marvelous  progress, 
the  great  patriotic  "uplift"  and  the  great  pro- 
phetic advance.    You  shall  not  serve,  work  for. 


150       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

or  worship  Mammon.  You  shall  serve  the  spirit 
of  Truth.  You  shall  break  down  the  law  of 
ownership,  the  wall  of  hell;  and  you  shall  see 
the  glory  of  Heaven. 

We  now  consider  the  question  of  the  "fluc- 
tuation of  prices."  Clearly  understand  that 
prices  do  not  fluctuate.  The  price  3  cents  per 
pound  is  always  the  price  3  cents  per  pound.  It 
means  the  weight  of  money  3  cents,  three-hun- 
dredths  of  a  dollar  to  the  weight  7000  grains  of 
some  commodity  in  trade  exchange.  The  price 
3  cents  is  always  the  price  3  cents.  Price  means 
weight  of  money.  The  market  price  1  dollar 
per  pound  states  the  weight  of  money  1  dollar 
to  7000  grains,  or  is  a  statement  of  the  weight 
of  money  25.8  grains  to  the  weight  7000  grains 
of  some  other  commodity  in  trade.  The  price  2 
cents  is  2  cents.  The  price  3  cents  is  3  cents. 
The  price  1  dollar  is  1 00  cents  and  is  the  weight 
25.8  grains  of  United  States  money,  the  United 
States  dollar.  The  price  does  not  fluctuate,  but 
the  value  (the  estimation  of  ownership)  may 
fluctuate   or   change,    so   that   the   price   which 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT         151 

formerly  indicated  it  no  longer  indicates  it  or  is 
no  longer  its  equivalent.  This  estimation  may 
change  from  the  price  2  cents  to  the  price  3 
cents,  as,  in  a  steam  gauge,  the  needle  changes 
from  one  number  to  another  showing  different 
indicated  pressure,  but  the  numbers  do  not  fluc- 
tuate. But  the  estimation  of  ownership  in  the 
ownership  of  money  is  fixed  at  1  mathematical 
ownership  to  1  mathematical  weight.  This  fixity 
defines  money. 

Market  prices  or  market  reports  are  state- 
ments of  market  balance  or  equivalence.  To 
illustrate  the  phenomenon  commonly  called 
"fluctuation  of  price,"  or  "fluctuation  of  prices," 
let  us  indicate  the  value  of  money  in  cents  per 
pound  by  a  stake  271  3P^%r>8  feet  high;  then  the 
value  of  any  commodity  at  1  cent  per  pound  is 
indicated  by  a  stake  1  foot  high,  at  2  cents  per 
pound,  by  a  stake  2  feet  high,  at  10  cents  per 
pound,  by  a  stake  10  feet  high,  etc.  Because 
money  is  always  worth  2713P^%58  cents  per 
pound,  the  stake  for  money  would  always  be 
2713P°%58  feet  high,  but  as  the  relation  of  the 


152       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP 

value  of  other  commodities  fluctuates,  the  stake 
today  for  the  value  of  a  pound  of  some  commod- 
ity might  be  2  feet  high,  representing  the  price  2 
cents  per  pound,  but  tomorrow  it  might  be  3 
feet  high,  representing  the  price  3  cents  (or  the 
value  of  the  price  3  cents)  for  a  commercial 
price  expresses  or  states  a  weight  of  money  and 
presents  its  value,  and  also  describes  an  equiva- 
lent. (A  commercial  price  or  market  report 
states  a  quantity  of  merchandise  and  also  states 
its  equivalent  in  money,  a  price.)  Now  a  stake 
for  a  commodity  having  no  value  would  be  at  the 
zero  level  and  non-existent  (or  be  there  only  in 
potentiality  of  increase  or  of  becoming  valuable, 
such  as  something  that  somebody  owns  and  that 
nobody  wants) . 

Any  process  or  thing  is  free  in  Nature,  but 
ownership  charges  high  for  transportation.  For 
the  bringing  of  anything  from  anywhere  to 
where  it  may  be  used  may  figuratively  be  called 
transportation.  And  we  will  perfect  transporta- 
tion, distribution  and  invention.  We  will  kill 
poverty.    Capitalism  arrogates  all  title  to  supply 


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and  its  agents  sit  at  every  door  of  the  "receipt 
of  custom."  Mark  II.  14.  Luke  V.  27,  28.  John 
XXI.  19.  This  last  spoke  he  signifying  by 
what  life  he  should  glorify  God.  Wherever  you 
see  tribute  taxation  or  rent  there  you  see  a 
Caesarism,  a  military  conquest,  and  a  tribute- 
paying  vassalry.  And  the  title  or  "right"  is  en- 
forced by  weapons,  and  approved  by  men  called 
"judges,"  also  by  men  called  "economists."  And 
capitalists  call  the  enactment  of  this  fearful  trag- 
edy "law  and  order." 

Capitalism,  the  worship  of  the  devil,  deprives 
man  of  his  heritage,  keeps  him  out  of  his  pas- 
ture and  denies  him  his  future.  Luke  IV.  6,  7. 
But  capitalism  shall  fail  and  fall  and  there  shall 
be  one  fold  and  one  shepherd.  John  X.  11-16. 
In  capitalism,  before  blessings  or  free  gifts  of 
God  can  come  to  man  from  the  future,  they  are 
prevented  by  taxation  from  coming  to  him  from 
the  future,  and  from  the  future  all  his  blessings 
come.  He  first  must  acquire  before  he  can 
transmit.  From  the  future  came  all  the  uni- 
verse.   Even  time  comes  from  the  future.   From 


154       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

the  future  man  came  and  to  the  future  does  he 
go.  Myriads  of  angels  laden  with  blessings  can- 
not now  reach  him,  who  would  come  to  him 
from  out  of  the  (hand  of  God)  future,  were 
they  not  prevented  by  ownership  wolfishness. 
Destroy  ownership  and  you  bring  time  filled 
with  continuous  joy  (hope  fulfilled)  (salvation), 
to  every  man.  And  he  shall  have  in  this  pres- 
ent time  the  divine  reward,  the  full  glory  of  di- 
vine accomplishment,  the  true  happiness  of  life 
well  lived.  Luke  XVIII.  18-30.  Mat.  XIX.  29. 
A  level  line  2713P^%58  feet  high  represents 
the  value  of  United  States  money,  always  worth 
27]3]2o^gg  cents  per  pound,  and  a  level  line  at 
the  height  of  zero  would  represent  a  commodity 
of  no  value  per  pound.  Now  if  you  should  men- 
tally consider  value  as  going  into  money  and 
not  into  some  other  commodity,  then  down  goes 
that  other  commodity  in  value  to  another  price. 
If  you  should  consider  value  as  going  into  money 
and  not  going  into  any  other  commodity,  down 
go  all  the  other  commodities  in  value  to  corre- 
sponding low^er  prices.     If  you  should  consider 


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all  commodities  (including  money)  as  station- 
ary in  value  except  one — not  money — and 
should  consider  value  as  going  into  that  one, 
then  up  goes  that  one  in  value  to  another  and 
higher  price;  and  if  you  imagined  value  going 
out  of  all  but  this  one,  the  result  is  mathemati- 
cally the  same.  This  mathematical  discussion  of 
value  and  of  prices,  or,  in  fact,  of  the  fluctuation 
of  value,  is  herein  but  slightly  touched  upon. 
This  consideration  of  the  fluctuation  of  value 
comprises  ten  typical  cases  which  include  a  con- 
sideration of  every  type  of  fluctuation  possible 
in  the  marketing  of  commodities. 

There  are  1 0  real  cases  or  really  1 0  cases,  but 
they  reduce  themselves  apparently  to  only  5 
cases,  or  to  5  apparent  or  outwardly  manifest 
cases,  for  as  value  can  be  imagined  as  going 
into  commodities,  so  it  can  be  imagined  going 
out  of  them.  And  if  it  should  be  imagined  as 
going  out  of  one  commodity— r-not  money — and 
as  stationary  in  all  the  others,  then  that  one 
commodity  would  fall  in  value  to  another  price. 
If  instead  of  having  gone  out  of  that  one  com- 


156      THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

modity  it  had  gone  into  it,  it  would  rise  in  value 
to  another  and  higher  price,  etc.,  etc.  If  it 
should  be  imagined  as  having  gone  out  of  money 
and  as  not  having  gone  either  out  of  or  into  any 
of  the  other  commodities,  then  all  of  the  other 
commodities  would  rise  in  the  same  proportion 
to  a  higher  price.  If  half  the  value  in  money 
should  go  out  of  money,  then  all  the  other  com- 
modities would  double  in  price,  or  it  would  take 
twice  the  weight  of  money  to  buy  them,  but  the 
mathematical  or  relative  value  of  a  monetary 
unit  is  always  1  or  unity.  And  therefore  the 
relative  value  of  money  is  always  1.  (It  is 
measured  by  itself  as  a  measure.)  A  man  who 
knows  little  of  change,  of  variation,  of  growth, 
of  integration  and  elimination,  of  incoming  and 
outgoing,  knows  little. 

If  value  in  a  definite  proportion  should  be 
imagined  as  going  into  all  commodities,  includ- 
ing money,  there  should  be  no  change  in  com- 
mercial prices,  no  change  In  the  market  report. 
For  instance,  suppose  the  value  in  money  should 
double  and  at  the  same  time  the  value  in  every 


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other  commoclity  should  double,  there  would  be 
no  change  in  market  prices.  Also  there  would 
be  no  change  in  market  prices  if  half  the  value 
in  money  and  half  the  value  in  every  other  com- 
modity should  go  out.  Now  the  last  two  cases 
are  apparently  or  arithmetically  statically  the 
same  (but  not  really  the  same).  (The  latter  of 
the  two  represents  infinitely  greater  prosper- 
ity.) Now,  excepting  one  commodity,  suppose 
value  to  double  in  all  the  others,  including 
money,  then  that  one  excepted  would  go  down 
one-half  in  price  and  all  the  others  would  remain 
as  before.  And  if  in  the  last  case  matters  be 
reversed  or  value  be  supposed  to  go  out  of  all 
except  the  single  excepted  one,  then  that  one 
would  go  up  in  price.  This  complete  discus- 
sion being  somewhat  long,  is  not  included  here, 
but  it  illumines  the  subject  of  money  and  price 
and  relative  value  and  the  phenomena  of  "fluc- 
tuation of  prices."  It  illustrates  the  prosperity 
resulting  from  large,  sudden  and  easy  accession 
to  money,  such  as  the  discovery  of  America,  the 
discovery  of  gold  in  California  and  Australia  at 


158       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

about  the  same  time,  etc.  And  also  it  illustrates 
the  lack  of  prosperity  or  the  adversity  resulting 
from  a  retention  of  money  by  men  in  control  of 
money,  the  "hold  up"  practiced  by  the  usury  or 
banking  interest  or  perhaps  by  the  speculative 
interest  in  conjunction  with  the  great  banking 
interest,  or  at  least  in  conjunction  with  a  por- 
tion of  it,  in  not  lending  money  or  in  not  ex- 
tending certain  loans  or  in  enforcing  collections 
with  rigor,  which  amounts  to  a  withdrawal  or 
partial  withdrawal  of  money  from  the  "mar- 
kets" or  from  the  general  "business"  of  the 
country,  and  in  great  "profits"  to  those  "busi- 
ness men"  properly  situated  to  "make"  or 
"reap"  or  "earn"  them.  And  so  the  country  is 
subjected  to  continually  recurring  fleecings  of 
many  kinds,  big  and  little.  And  "gainful  busi- 
ness" is  a  son  of  Babylon  and  it  is  opposed  to 
the  welfare  of  nations.  And  it  shall  die.  And 
the  abomination  shall  be  destroyed  and  aban- 
doned. And  it  stands  against  the  Kingdom  of 
God  and  where  it  ought  not.  Mark  XIII.  14. 
Rev.  XVII.  5. 


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The  prosperity  of  the  world  would  be  infin- 
itely greater  w^ith  value  at  zero  than  it  would  be 
with  value  at  any  higher  point,  or  the  less  the 
value  the  better,  or,  better  said,  the  less  the 
ownership  the  better  (value  indicates  owner- 
ship), or  it  would  be  infinitely  greater  in  the 
state  of  a£Fairs  without  or  beyond  ownership. 
(This  is  the  state  of  affairs  in  which  the  gifts  of 
God  cannot  be  purchased  with  money.)  (St. 
Peter.)  This  is  the  state  of  affairs  where  there 
is  no  ownership  and  therefore  no  "purchase  in 
money**  and  no  ownership  to  be  accounted. 

This  is  the  state  of  affairs  in  the  imagination 
of  the  Christ  and  of  St.  Peter.  "You  cannot 
serve  God  and  Mammon.**  "Thee  and  thy 
money  perish  with  thee  that  thou  hast  thought 
that  the  gifts  of  God  should  be  purchased  with 
money.**    Acts  VIII.  20.  Luke  I.  52. 

He  who  believes  that  the  gifts  of  God  should 
be  purchased  with  money  cannot  receive  the  gift 
or  baptism  of  the  public  spirit  or  Holy  Ghost. 
He  is  lacking  in  the  Comprehensive  Intelligence. 
Acts  VIIL  19-2L 


160       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

He  is  of  the  limited,  or  commercial,  or  capi- 
talistic, or  wage  slavery  sphere  of  intelligence. 
If  you  are  a  capitalist  we  beg  of  you  to  earn- 
estly consider  the  recurring  butcheries  of  men 
and  the  carnage  now  taking  place  in  Europe  and 
the  political  or  "economic"  difficulties  of  the 
world  for  which  there  is  in  capitalism  no  cure. 
And  may  this  accomplish  your  conversion  or  re- 
pentence.  Acts  VIII.  22.  If  a  repentence  or 
change  of  view  or  advance  of  public  opinion 
be  not  effected  or  if  the  capitalistic  frame  of 
mind  should  continue  to  prevail,  a  holocaust  of 
great  armies  w^ould  also  be  offered  up  here  in 
America  and  blood  would  flow  to  horses'  bridles. 
But  this  will  never  be,  for  before  this,  capital- 
ism, the  doctrine  of  ownership,  shall  cease  to 
prevail.    Rev.  XII.  9,  10. 

This  material  world  is  a  gift  of  God  to  man 
(to  use  during  his  time),  and  so  is  also  the  in- 
tellectual world,  the  world  of  the  intelligence  of 
man,  Man  cannot  happily  oppose  the  creation, 
the  design.  Receive  of  the  Truth,  the  knowledge 
that  sees  and  that  frees,  and  enter  into  the  Great 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  161 

Freedom.  But  you  shall  enter  into  this  Great 
Freedom  as  true  stewards,  stewards  of  the  truth. 
And  the  word  is  Truth.  John  XVII.  1 7.  XIII. 
32. 

The  state  of  affairs  to  which  the  world  must 
come,  and  the  more  quickly  the  better,  is  the  one 
in  which  the  value  1  of  money  becomes  0,  or  in 
which  a  money  cannot  obtain,  or  in  which  it  is 
impossible  to  have  or  to  make  a  money.  And  in 
this  state  of  affairs  ownership  does  not  exist. 
For  it  is  impossible  to  make  or  to  have  a  value- 
less money.  For  value  is  necessary  to  the  mak- 
ing of  a  money  and  to  the  state  of  commerce,  the 
commercial  state.  And  the  commercial  state  is 
a  concomitant  of  capitalism,  the  state  of  owner- 
ship. And  the  state  of  ownership  is  that  state 
in  which  ownership  exists  or  obtains  or  is  up- 
held. That  state  is  "capitalism."  Capitalism 
shall  utterly  fall.  And  that  capitalism  shall  so 
fall,  it  is  necessary  that  ownership  be  absolutely 
abandoned  or  abolished.  So  be  it  abandoned. 
Be  ye  doers  of  the  word.    Amen. 


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164       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

In  Fig.  "A"  the  line  showing  the  value  of  a 
pound  of  money  in  cents  per  pound  appears,  and 
also  the  line  showing  the  value  of  a  pound  of 
any  commodity  worth  9  cents  per  pound.  These 
lines  cannot  fluctuate  and  prices  do  not  fluc- 
tuate (but  the  statements  of  price,  or  commercial 
reports  change.)  Value,  commercial  power, 
power  of  ownership,  purchasing  power,  fluc- 
tuates. The  value  in  the  commodity  yesterday 
worth  9  cents  per  pound  may  so  increase  that 
the  line  for  9  cents  (per  pound)  does  not  repre- 
sent it  and  today  it  may  be  represented  by  the 
line  for  the  price  10  cents  (to  the  pound)  or  it 
may  so  diminish  as  to  be  represented  by  the  line 
for  the  price  8  cents  per  pound,  or  some  other. 
The  line  for  the  value  of  a  pound  of  United 
States  money  is  stationary  at  2713P^%58  feet 
high,  and  the  price  of  a  pound  of  it  is  always 
27131  ^^%58  cents.  We  have  also  placed  the  stake 
b  for  the  price  of  1  cent  per  pound  and  this  being 
represented  at  the  height  of  I  foot  then  the  line 
for  money  is  27\3\^^%58  feet  high.  This  differ- 
ence is  tragic.    The  line  for  the  value  of  I  cent 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT         165 

(per  pound)  is  a  ladder  step  high,  while  the  line 
for  the  value  of  a  pound  of  money  is  over  5 
miles  high.  There  are  5280  feet  in  a  mile  and  5 
miles  is  26,400  feet,  731  feet  short  of  27,131 
feet.  The  height  for  the  value  of  a  pound  of 
United  States  money,  compared  with  the  height 
for  the  value  of  a  pound  of  any  commodity  at 
(the  price)  1  cent  per  pound,  is  near  twice  the 
height  counted  above  mean  sea  level  of  the  high- 
est mountain  in  the  United  States  as  compared  to 
the  height  of  a  point  1  foot  above  mean  sea 
level.  Mt.  Whitney,  the  highest  mountain  in 
the  United  States  (exclude  Alaska),  is  14,502 
feet  high;  McKinley  (Alaska),  20,464;  Orizaba 
(Mexico),  18,250;  Aconcagua,  the  chief  of  the 
Columbian  Hemisphere  and  the  sentinel  near 
"El  Cristo  de  Los  Andes,"  which  is  the  great 
American  peace  statue  and  monument,  23,393; 
Kilmandjaro,  the  highest  peak  of  Africa,  1 9,680 ; 
but  mathematically  the  value  of  a  pound  of 
United  States  money  compared  to  the  value  of  a 
pound  of  material  at  1  cent  per  pound  is  ex- 
ceeded by  the  heights  above  sea  level  of  but  a 


166       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

few  of  the  peaks  of  the  Himalaya  (like  Mt. 
Everest,  29,002  feet  high,  the  highest  measured 
peak  in  the  world) ,  as  compared  to  the  height  of 
a  rock  whose  top  is  one  foot  above  mean  sea 
level.  Twice  the  height  of  Mt.  Whitney 
(14,502)  is  29.004  feet;  27,131  feet  is  only 
1873  feet  less  than  29,004  feet. 

In  Fig.  B  the  element  of  time  is  incorporated 
and  the  true  method  is  shown  of  representing 
the  fluctuation  of  value  or  the  "fluctuation  of 
prices,"  as  it  is  called.  This  diagram  is  marked 
from  left  to  right  by  24  equal  spaces,  each  rep- 
resenting a  period  of  time,  say  1  day,  and  each 
space  to  the  right  represents  1  day  advance  of 
time. 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  167 

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168       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

A  commodity  here  sells  for  the  first  12  days 
at  5  cents  a  pound,  for  the  next  6  at  4|/2  cents, 
and  for  the  next  6  at  4  cents.  Another  sells  for 
the  first  5  days  at  2  cents  per  pound,  the  next  4 
at  2 J/2  cents,  the  next  3  at  3  cents,  the  next  5  at 
4  cents,  the  next  2  at  3  J/2  cents,  the  next  2  at 
^Yi  cents,  the  next  3  at  2  cents  per  pound. 

Another  sells  the  first  8  days  at  27,134  cents 
per  pound,  at  1  cent  more  per  pound  for  the 
next  8  days,  and  at  still  another  cent  higher  for 
the  succeeding  8  days,  and  it  is  more  valuable 
than  the  commodity  United  States  money,  and 
will  continue  to  be  so  as  long  as  it  sells  for  more 
than  27,131  ^^%58  cents  per  pound.  This  method 
accurately  expresses  to  the  eye,  or  mathemati- 
cally, the  fluctuation  of  value  in  commodities,  or 
the  mathematical  relationship  of  their  values  for 
any  definite  weight  at  any  moment  of  time. 
And  any  given  commercial  value  is  expressed  by 
some  constant  weight  of  money.  And  any 
definite  weight  of  money  counts  as  having  a 
constant  value.  Price  is  weight  of  money.  And 
in  the  monetary  unit  the  value  unit  is  always 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT         169 

wrapped.  And  the  price  1  is  the  monetary  unit 
and  its  value  is  always  the  value  1  of  commer- 
cial accounts. 

In  the  United  States  the  power  of  ownership 
of  1  dollar  is  the  standard  commercial  package. 
(It  is  the  "medium  of  exchange.")  It  is  the 
commercial  account  unit  (the  price  report  or 
market  price  of  a  commodity  gives  the  weight  of 
that  commodity,  and  this  weight  is  proportion- 
ally as  much  greater  than  the  price,  as  that  com- 
modity is  less  valuable  than  the  price  (price  is 
weight  of  money),  and  the  price  is  proportion- 
ately as  much  lighter  than,  as  it  is  more  valua- 
ble than,  that  commodity).  The  "market  price" 
or  market  report  of  any  commodity  tells  a  weight 
of  money  (a  price  )  and  tells  or  describes  its 
equivalent  in  a  weight  of  that  commodity.  The 
market  report  of  any  merchandise  tells  a  weight 
of  money  and  tells,  defines  or  describes  its  equiv- 
alent in  that  merchandise. 

Life  under  proper  government  progresses  reg- 
ularly without  fear  and  in  continuous  happiness. 
Ownership  impedes  the  true  progress  of  (Life) 


170       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

the  human  race.  Remove  ownership  till  not  a 
vestige  of  it  remain.  It  is  impossible,  unmen- 
tionable in  Truth,  for  no  error  can  be  said  logi- 
cally to  be  nor  can  the  verb  of  existence,  the 
verb  of  God,  the  word:  the  verb  to  be  or  the 
verb  is  be  properly  used  in  connection  with  any 
error  or  wrong.  And  the  word  is  is  of  the 
magic  sign  IS  and  in  that  sign  thou  shalt  con- 
quer. And  thou  shalt  see  the  glory  that  is. 
Value  is  a  logical  exponent,  the  finger  of  God, 
and  it  is  an  admonitory  signal,  visible  to  show 
man's  non-compliance  with  Truth,  non-conform- 
ity with  the  natural  realm,  lack  of  adjustment  to 
the  true  plan.  Or,  to  show  or  apprise  him  of  his 
shortcoming,  inadjustment,  injustice,  debt,  delin- 
quency, sin,  error,  mistake,  deviation.  And  in- 
justice is  inadjustment  with  the  true  plan.  The 
natural  and  the  artificial  are  alike  natural  (to  the 
circumstances  under  which  they  occur).  Value 
indicates  legal  "extortion  and  excess."  And 
"extortion  and  excess"  is  always  "surplus." 
(Not  in  the  true  plan.)  (The  happy  plan)  (the 
just   plan)    (The   Plan.)      Mat.   XXIII.    23-25. 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT         17! 

But  value,  like  every  other  manifestation,  is 
never  surplus.  It  is  the  right  thing  in  its  place. 
Value  calls  the  (human)  mind  to  the  pres- 
ence of  ownership.  And  the  human  mind  there- 
by discovers  the  lack  of  truth  in  the  presence  of 
ownership,  or  the  lack  of  the  presence  of  truth 
in  the  error  known  as  ownership.  It  thereby 
discovers  the  negativeness,  the  negation  of  God 
in  Mammon.  And  as  value  points  out  a  wrong 
let  the  occasion  be  removed  and  it  will  disappear. 
This  is  of  the  language  of  nature,  which  is  with- 
out mystery,  and  knows  no  error,  for  true 
knowledge  is  all  Truth,  or  error  does  not  occur 
in  Heaven,  and  lies  are  not  told  in  the  language 
of  Nature.  And  things  as  they  are,  are  as  under 
the  conditions  they  ought  to  be.  Deception  is 
without  science.  Science  is  without  deception. 
Science  is  without  mystery.  Science  is  an  open 
book.  Science  is  without  deceit.  And  "con- 
structive" legislation  is  legislation  that  conforms 
to  the  (natural  )  construction,  the  (progressive) 
creation,  the  "Kingdom  of  God."  And  the  God 
of  things  as  they  are  is  the  God  of  things  as 


172       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

(under  the  circumstances)  they  ought  to  be. 
And  (the  true  light)  the  removal  of  ill  heals  the 
sick.    Mat.  XV.  9,  13. 

Abandon  the  wage,  the  money,  the  ownership, 
state  or  system.  Man  shall  not  buy  nor  sell. 
He  shall  not  "purchase"  the  gifts  of  God  with 
"money."  St.  Peter.  Acts  VIII.  20.  This  abol- 
ishes commerce  from  the  face  of  the  earth  and 
the  state  in  which  it  obtains.  Those  who  advo- 
cate capitalism  "shall  be  destroyed  from  among 
the  people"  (by  the  abandonment  of  the  fal- 
lacy). Men  shall  not  be  guilty  of  ownership 
and  shall  not  commit  commerce  and  shall 
know  money  no  more.  Blessed  by  the  Spirit 
are  the  propertyless,  for  of  them  is  the  Kingdom 
of  Heaven,  the  true  government.  Men  shall 
know  more  and  shall  be  without  money.  Mat. 
V.  3,  and  without  thievery,  Mat.  XXI.  13. 
Mark  XI.  1 7.  Luke  XIX.  46,  and  without  mer- 
chants, John  II.  14-17.  Is.  LVI.  7.  Jer.  VII.  7- 
11,  1-6.  And  the  deceitf ulness  of  capitalism 
shall  not  choke  out  the  word.  Mat.  XIII.  22. 
XIX.  23.    Mark  X.  23.    Luke  XVIII.  24. 


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Every  soul  which  will  not  hear  that  Prophet 
(or  prophecy  or  Word  of  the  Spirit)  shall  be 
destroyed  from  among  the  people.  St.  Peter. 
Acts  III.  23.  That  is,  all  men  or  mankind  will 
become  too  enlightened  to  practice  capitalism, 
which  is  a  species  of  cannibalism.  Repent  ye, 
therefore,  and  be  converted  that  not  yourselves 
but  your  sins  may  be  blotted  out  ( Abolita) ,  and 
then  the  times  of  refreshing  (continuous  or  per- 
manent prosperity)  (Flourishing  times)  shall 
come  from  the  presence  of  the  Lord.  And  he 
shall  send  Jesus  Christ  which  before  was 
preached  unto  you,  who  in  heaven  must  remain 
(unknown  to  you)  (misunderstood  by  you)  un- 
til the  times  of  the  restitution  of  all  things  (the 
abolition  of  the  wrong  of  ownership,  "the  right 
of  property")  which  God  has  spoken  by  the 
mouth  of  all  his  holy  prophets  (true  spokes- 
men) since  the  world  began.  Acts  III.  19-36. 
Mat.  XVII.  1 1 .  Capitalism  is  inefficient,  cruel, 
cumbrous  and  calamitous. 

Ownership  is  opposed  to  the  Spirit  of  Truth, 
the  harmony  of  the  Universe.     And  it  does  not 


174       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

follow  the  line  of  prophecy.  And  it  is  inimical 
to  the  happiness  of  man,  and  to  the  teaching  of 
the  Christ.  Mat.  XII.  25.  John  XII.  26.  Now 
shortly  are  the  times  of  which  before  this  time 
no  man  knew,  the  "times  of  the  restitution  of  all 
things,"  the  abandonment  of  the  wrong  of  prop- 
erty, the  abolition  of  the  debt  "system"  or 
"house."  Dow^n  falls  capitalism,  the  house  of 
ownership,  of  "bonded  indebtedness"  and  of 
taxation.  Mat.  XXIV.  36.  Mark  XIII.  32  and 
34-37.  Mat.  XXIII.  37-39.  XXIV.  1,  5,  22-24. 
Luke  XXI.  6,  20,  22,  24.  Ownership  is  adverse 
possession,  possession  adverse  to  the  public 
spirit,  the  holy  spirit,  the  spirit  of  truth,  the 
spirit  of  enlightenment,  for  the  glory  of  man 
consists  in  the  absence  of  ownership.  Luke 
XII.  15.  I  Tim.  VI.  5.  7,  9,  10,  17,  18,  20,  21. 
And  "shares"  of  "stock"  are  shares  of  owner- 
ship. 

Command  over  men  is  related  by  weights  of 
money.  Prices  show  not  public  prosperity,  but 
rather  public  adversity.  To  tell  land  owners 
about  the  glories  of  "dollar  w^heat,"  or  "two- 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT         175 

dollar  wheat,"  or  "five-dollar  wheat,"  or  "ten- 
dollar  mutton."  or  "25-cent  beef,"  or  "50-cent 
hog,"  or  "50-cent  wool"  does  not  encourage 
men  whose  families  are  on  the  verge  of  starva- 
tion, the  rim  of  death.  The  Mammonist  cares 
nothing  for  humanity  in  general  and  he  boasts 
that  he  is  a  money  getter,  a  "practical  business 
man,"  and  no  "idealist."  And  he  has  the  insol- 
ence to  demand  that  the  United  States  govern- 
ment shall  be  run  for  his  benefit.  But  it  takes 
ideals  and  idealists  to  upbuild  man,  and  the 
higher  the  ideal  the  better  the  man,  the  better 
the  government,  the  better  and  the  happier  the 
world.  John  I.  32-34.  And  we  hold  inviolate 
the  principle  of  the  divine  (human)  welfare. 
Mammonism  is  in  disagreement  with  the  true 
policy  of  government.  And  it  is  futile  to  con- 
sult Mammonists  or  capitalists  as  to  what  had 
best  be  done  for  the  good  of  the  world.  Mat. 
VI.  24.    Luke  XVI.  13-17. 

The  science  of  the  world  of  human  happiness 
is  the  science  and  the  world  of  the  right  living 
of  the  Life  and  is  beyond  and  above  the  realm 


176       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

of  arithmetic.  Happiness  is  beyond  and  above 
the  world  of  computation.  Happiness  cannot  be 
counted  in  money  nor  in  any  other  thing.  And 
men  cannot  count  it.  They  have  no  arithmetical 
unit  of  it. 

Happiness  is  immeasurable  by  number  and 
unaccountable  in  money.  Man  cannot  measure 
it  by  number  nor  set  a  mortal  or  numerical 
boundary  upon  it.  It  is  of  the  Infinite.  It  is  of 
the  expression  of  the  Immortal.  When  you  are 
truly  happy,  Heaven  itself  is  happy  and  the 
Spirit  of  Creation  sympathizes  with  you  or  in 
you.  Therefore,  to  labor  for  the  happiness  of 
men  is  to  labor  for  Heaven,  for  the  happiness  of 
God,  the  Great  Spirit,  the  Spirit  of  Truth.  It  is 
to  be  accordant  with,  or  to  labor  in,  the  glory  of 
the  creation,  to  truly  partake  of  the  blood 
(power)  of  God.  John  VI.  54.  The  divine  con- 
secration is  in  this  service  and  it  constitutes  the 
catholic  solidarity.  As  you  do  a  good  act  to  or 
do  a  good  thing  for  one  of  the  least  of  men  even 
to  the  giving  of  a  cup  of  cold  water,  so  you  do 
it  to  God  himself.     Mat.  XXV.  40,  and  so  also 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT         177 

as  to  an  evil  act.  And  also  the  refusal  to  do  a 
good  act  is  an  evil  act.  45.  The  public  aboli- 
tion of  ownership  is  an  act  of  Mercy,  honoring 
You  and  blessing  all  Mankind.  It  benefits  and 
glorifies  you.  It  exalts  you  in  the  Creation.  It 
brings  you  near  the  Creator.  It  glorifies  you  by 
magnifying,  by  increasing,  by  glorifying  the 
God  in  you.  And  whatever  glorifies  you  glori- 
fies man  and  glorifies  every  man  and  glorifies 
God.  Put  merchants  and  merchandise  out  of 
the  temple,  the  government.  Elxpel  salesmen 
from  the  apostleship.  Put  them  out  of  office. 
Put  office  or  authority  beyond  them.  John 
XIII.  31.  Mat.  XII.  7,  25.  (Put  commerce 
behind  the  times.    Luke  IV.  8.) 

Numbers,  or  number,  is  used  to  represent  the 
relations  of  distances,  times,  powers,  forces, 
points,  positions,  vibrations,  and  such  like  things, 
but  it  cannot  be  used  to  express  human  happi- 
ness. The  expression  of  the  human  soul  baf- 
fles mathematics.  Joy  cannot  be  mathemati- 
cally measured  or  stated.  Happiness,  the  pleas- 
ure of  imagination,  or  of  the  soul,  is  immeasur- 


178       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

able  in  arithmetic.  The  (true)  happiness  of 
man  is  beyond  the  computation  of  money,  and 
beyond  the  comparison  of  mammon,  and  it  is  in 
the  plan  that  shall  be  accepted,  and  it  is  not 
measured  in  mortal  number  not  told  by  mortal- 
ity. The  true  government  is  measured  in  life 
everlasting,  and  the  true  happiness  is  told  by  im- 
mortality. 

Tlie  human  soul  is  beyond  mathematics.  But 
mathematics  may  express  relative  material  op- 
position to  human  happiness  and  also  relative 
material  conformity  thereto,  and  in  this  manner 
man  may  be  marvelously,  miraculously,  assisted 
by  mathematics.  The  standard  of  science  is 
Truth,  accordance,  exactness,  perfection.  "Be 
ye  perfect,  even  as  your  Father  in  Heaven  is 
perfect."  Be  ye  in  perfect  accord  with  the  will 
or  Action  or  Plan  of  the  Universe,  w^ith  the  Cre- 
ator, and  in  the  Creation.  Perfection  is  your 
standard.  Negation,  monopoly,  ownership,  has 
no  law  of  right  (Life)  to  sustain  it  and  therefore 
no  right  (to  live),  (to  exist),  (of  existence). 
It  lacks  the  divine  significance.     It  is  of  mortal 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT         179 

lack.  It  has  no  truth  to  sustain  it  and  therefore 
it  is  without  the  holy  city  and  among  wolves, 
sorcerers,  merchants,  murderers,  false  worship- 
pers and  all  those  that  love  lies  and  make  them. 
Rev.  XXII.  14,  15. 

Abolish  ownership  instantly,  for  ownership  is 
alliance  with  death,  covenance  with  hell.  It  is  a 
"plant  not  planted  of  my  Father,"  and  it  "shall 
be  rooted  up."  Mat.  XV.  9-13.  "Ye  cannot 
serve  God  and  Mammon."  Noblemen  are  "doers 
of  the  word,"  "sons  of  God."  And  the  blood 
of  God  is  of  one  nobility.  Acts  XVII.  24-34. 
And  you  shall  not  pay  taxes,  tribute  unto  Cae- 
sar.    Luke  XXIII.  2. 

Be  ye  doers  of  the  word,  disciples  of  the 
school  of  the  new  commandment  and  citizens  of 
the  positive  world,  the  world  of  what  you  shall 
do,  which  supersedes  the  negative  world,  the 
world  of  what  you  shall  not  do.  John  XIII.  34- 
36.  XIV.  15,  21,  23,  24.  XV.  4.  10,  12,  14. 
IV.  20.  And  again  be  ye  doers  of  the  word,  not 
hearers  only.  Jas.  I.  22.   Mat.  VII.  21.   Luke  VI. 


180       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

46-49.  VIII.  21.  X.  28.  XL  28.  And  this  ie 
(in)  fulfillment.  And  for  the  true  or  right  use 
of  the  laws  of  nature  you  shall  have  abundance 
and  happiness  and  shall  come  into  all  that 
Heaven  has  to  give  you. 

The  highest  order  of  work  to  be  done,  the 
duty  of  all  and  of  everyone  is  the  work  in  the 
public  or  holy  spirit.     Do  you  this  First. 

You  need  wherewithal  to  eat,  drink  and  be 
clothed.  Do  you  First  the  work  of  the  holy 
spirit,  and  all  these  things  you  shall  all  abun- 
dantly have.  This  work  is  the  first  duty  of  man. 
In  it  is  the  true  religion.  In  it  is  the  fulfillment 
of  the  Law.  Mat.  VI.  33.  Luke  XII.  31.  Mat. 
VII.  7.  Luke  XL  9,  28,  27.  Rom.  XIII.  10. 
Any  just  law  brings  general  happiness  to  the 
world.  The  call  to  Israel  is  "The  Lord  thy  God 
is  one  God."  The  royal  law  is  "Do  unto  others 
as  you  would  have  them  do  unto  you."  Jas.  II. 
8.  The  gift  to  him  who  is  faithful  is:  the  keys 
of  the  universe.  Mat.  XVI.  1 9.  This  is  the  Free- 
dom of  the  Creator.     The  prophecy  and  com- 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT    181 

mandment  and  rule  is  that  **you  ahall  love  the 
Lord  your  God  with  all  your  heart  and  your 
neighbor  as  yourself."  And  there  is  none 
greater.  And  you  have  not  fulfilled  it.  And  to 
love  your  neighbor  as  yourself  merges  with  to 
love  your  God.  And  you  have  heard  and  un- 
derstood the  comprehensive  rule  that  "you  shall 
have  love  one  unto  another,"  and  many  of  you 
have  heard  with  your  ears  only  and  have  not 
even  tried  to  obey  it,  and  many  of  you  have 
limitedly  obeyed  it,  and  many  but  grudgingly 
obeyed  it,  and  many  have  ignored  it,  and  many 
have  boastfully  disobeyed  it,  and  therefore  the 
good  things  of  God  many  of  you  have  imper- 
fectly and  inequitably  and  even  iniquitously  re- 
ceived and  distributed. 

For  it  is  an  eternal  law  that  as  you  love  the 
creation  by  that  measure  are  you  blessed  by  the 
Creator  and  in  the  creation.  And  those  who 
love  the  creation  are  the  elect.  Infinite,  un- 
bounded by  mathematics,  is  the  glory  prepared 
for  the  elect.  Mark  XIIL  13,  20,  22,  27.  I  Cor. 
II.  9.     And  the  glory  of  the  race  is  the  reward 


182       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

prepared  for  the  elect.  But  the  elect  serve  God 
and  cannot  serve  capitalism.  And  they  are  those 
who  love  to  hear  the  truth,  the  word  of  God. 
John  XVII.  1  7.   I  Cor.  II.  9. 

The  imperative  commandment,  the  imperial 
mandate  of  the  Light  of  the  World,  the  Lord  of 
Lords  and  King  of  Kings,  that  you  shall  seek 
first  the  Kingdom  of  God  and  its  rightfulness 
and  His  assurance  and  promise  that  by  and 
through  this  all  material  things  shall  be  added 
(freely  given)  unto  you,  you  have  heard  but  not 
well  obeyed  nor  well  understood,  nor  have  you 
generally  known  how  to  obey,  for  generally  you 
have  heard  faintly  and  have  asked  little  and 
cared  little  and  loved  little.  Fulfill!  Perform 
you  the  command  and  He  will  coincidently  per- 
form the  promise.  Fulfill  the  command  and  the 
promise  will  be  coincidently  fulfilled.  Now  you 
have  no  true  excuse  for  your  fault  and  now  you 
shall  ask  more  and  shall  receive  and  shall  know. 
John  XV.  22-27.  IX.  40,  41.  Luke  XII.  47.  48. 
And  you  shall  have  life  and  shall  have  it  more 
bountifully.    John  X.  10.     The  word  of  God  is 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  183 

Truth.  And  you  shall  know  the  word  of  God 
and  the  word  of  God  will  make  you  free.  John 
VIII.  32.  XVII.  17.  And  (true)  freedom  is  (in) 
fulfillment.  Freedom  is  in  the  fulfillment  of  the 
word  of  God.  This  is  the  true  freedom,  the 
"new  freedom.**  This  is  the  freedom  of  the 
"New  Commandment.**  And  in  this  freedom 
is  the  salvation  of  the  world. 

Open  the  door  of  your  heart  to  the  freedom 
of  yourself  and  to  the  freedom  of  all  the  world. 
Enter  into  the  new  freedom  and  true  govern- 
ment, the  Kingdom  of  God,  the  new  world,  the 
world  beyond  taxation  and  money,  the  day  of 
Justice,  the  day  of  Judgment,  the  day  of  (nat- 
ural) atonement,  the  acceptable  yeaur.  Luke 
IV.  19. 

To  hear  Truth  and  do  it  is  (in  the  process  of) 
fulfillment.  And  blessed  in  it  are  you.  Luke 
XI.  28.  Mark  III.  35.  And  fulfillment  is  obe- 
dience to  Truth.  And  perfect  progress  is  in  ful- 
fillment, the  immortal  glorification  of  man  and 
of  the  Son  of  Man,  the  Christ,  the  Emmanuel, 
the  God  in  us.     And  at  last  it  is  fulfilled  in  the 


184       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

perfect  attainment.  And  it  doth  not  yet  appear 
what  we  shall  be,  but  we  know  that  when  it 
shall  appear,  we  shall  be  godlike,  for  we  shall 
see  God  as  he  is.  And  every  man  who  hath 
this  hope  in  him  purifieth  himself  even  as  this 
thought  is  pure  (clear)  (logical)  (noble)  (in- 
spired). I  John  III.  2,  3.  And  as  you  advance 
more  you  shall  be  told  more.  John  XIV.  26,  1 7. 
XV.  26.  XVI.  1 3.  You  shall  not  be  abandoned. 
You  shall  be  guided  and  comforted.    XIV.    18. 

And  every  good  deed  is  done  to  immortal 
glory,  and  (shall  be)  for  the  good  of  mankind 
forever.  Mat.  XXV.  34-41.  Be  ye  doers  of 
the  word. 

And  when  you  do  the  will  that  shall  be  done 
in  earth  as  in  heaven,  then  you  do  the  word. 
Then  you  do  truly  "make  flesh"  incarnate 
transform,  evolve,  unfold,  grow,  progress,  ex- 
press, exist,  be,  live.   John  I.  14,  1 5-34. 

The  word  of  God  is  Truth,  and  it  is  always  in 
Love  (natural  harmony).  To  live  well  is  to 
love  well.  These  rules  and  directions  are  given 
to  you,  one  and  all,  that  you  may  all  have  life 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT         185 

everlasting  and  the  glory  thereof,  the  ever-on- 
coming and  ever-present  continuity  of  happy 
and  glorious  human  life.  Mat.  XIX.  29.  Luke 
XVIII.  29,  30.  John  XV.  6-27.  XVI.  13.  And 
Love  is  (manifested)  (heard)  in  the  harmony 
of  the  creation,  the  natural  or  universal  har- 
mony, the  song  of  the  stars,  the  music  of  the 
spheres,  and  in  the  bubbles  upon  the  water,  and 
in  the  movement  thereof,  and  in  thine  own  har- 
mony in  life,  thine  own  atonement  with  the 
true  creation.  Ps.  XIX.  And  be  ye  faithful  in 
the  (little)  things  (of  life)  that  you  now  have 
and  you  shall  be  (made)  masters  of  the  whole 
creation  (the  universe).  Mat.  XXV.  23,  30,  34. 
Luke  XIX.  1  7,  27.  No  ignorant  nor  indifferent 
nor  ignoble  soul  can  be  called  truly  free.  And 
no  sordid  soul  can  be  of  the  elect.  He  is  a  son 
of  hell.  Mat.  XXIII.  10-15.  John  XVII.  12. 
Let  the  cry  of  your  heart  be:  Freedom  First. 
And  let  it  take  in  all  the  world.  John  VIII.  32. 
And  no  self-seeker  (capitalist)  shall  reign  in  the 
world  of  Love,  nor  rule  in  the  true  government. 
Mat.   IV.    10.     Luke  IV.   8.     John  XVII.    12. 


186       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

Acts  I.  20.  Mat.  X.  39.  And  every  hireling  is 
a  son  of  perdition  and  careth  not  for  the  sheep. 
John  X.  13.  He  hath  not  the  true  patriotism. 
Receive  the  light  of  the  world.  Open  the  door 
of  your  soul  to  your  own  true  freedom  and  to 
the  freedom  of  all  the  world.  This  freedom  is 
in  the  Kingdom  (character)  (house)  (govern- 
ment) (Will)  of  God.  It  is  expressed  in  pro- 
gressive and  universal  harmony.  The  true  hap- 
piness of  man  is  in  this  freedom.  This  happi- 
ness is  in  the  true  freedom,  the  "new  freedom," 
the  true  government,  the  new  government.  John 
XIII.  34,  35. 

Seek  this  freedom  first  and  all  the  (spiritual 
and  material)  blessings  of  the  universe  will  be 
freely  given  (added)  to  you.  Luke  XVIII.  29, 
30.  Mat.  XIX.  29.  30.  Mat.  VI.  33.  Luke 
XII.  31. 

And  all  blessings  are  spiritual.  And  what  you 
call  spiritual  is  as  real  as  what  you  call  material. 
And  you  cannot  by  false  assertion  truly  add  or 
subtract.  Let  every  man  be  attentive  and  care- 
ful.    Mark  XIII.  37.     And  not  one  jot  nor  one 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  187 

tittle  of  the  law  shall  fail,  but  all  shall  be  ful- 
filled.   Mat.  V.  17-20.    Mat.  VI.  16-27. 

The  abolition  of  ownership  frees  the  world, 
installs  the  true  government  and  settles  the  in- 
dustrial question  right.  And  there  shall  be  free 
production  distribution  and  consumption.  The 
abolition  of  ownership  insures  to  each  and  all  of 
you  the  possession  of  those  things  you  should 
have  for  the  time  that  you  should  have  them. 
The  abolition  of  ownership  empowers,  encour- 
ages, ennobles,  frees  and  unifies  the  human  race 
and  glorifies  the  Son  of  Man.  John  XVII.  1 1 , 
12,  21.  John  XIII.  13,  16,  19-31.  And  to 
glorify  the  Son  of  Man  is  (in  the  process  of) 
fulfillment.  The  abolition  of  ownership  over- 
throws tyranny  and  repression,  and  overcomes 
the  oppression  and  opposition  of  the  ignorant, 
uninspired  and  unglorified.  The  abolition  of 
ownership  freely  allows  those  w^ho  seek  the 
truth,  the  true,  the  elect,  the  natural  leaders,  the 
true  masters,  the  true  leaders  of  mankind,  to 
continuously  and  happily  lead  it  to  the  Great 
Fulfillment,  the  fulfillment  fulfilled,  the  highest 


188       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

glory  of  (human)  attainment  (the  perfection 
of  the  human  race  and  its  habitation)  (the  high- 
est goal  of  the  incarnate  soul)  (the  divine  atone- 
ment, John  XVII.  20-26)  (the  will,  government, 
that  shall  be  perfectly  at  one  with  the  divine  or 
be  done  as  in  heaven  so  in  earth)  (the  perfec- 
tion of  men)  (the  perfect  man)  (The  All  in 
Man)  (the  highest  glory  of  God  in  earth)  (the 
greatest  glory  of  man).  John  XIV.  1-3,  23. 
John  XVII.  1-26.  And  we  know  not  yet  ex- 
actly what  this  shall  be  nor  what  we  shall  be, 
but  it  is  revealed  to  the  great  writer  and  told  to 
us  that  we  shall  be  Godlike.  I  John  III.  1  -3,  1 5- 
18,  24.  John  I.  49-51,  XIV.  1-21.  XVII.  15, 
21-23,  24-26.  And  every  one  who  sees  this  is 
of  the  elect.  I  John  III.  3.  I  John  III.  1-3.  IV. 
Mat.  XXIV.  22-31.  Mark  XIII.  20,  22,  27. 
Isaiah  XLII.  1.  XLV.  4.  LXV.  9,  22.  25.  I 
Peter  II.  6.  Rom.  VIII.  1-39.  Col.  III.  4  and  1- 
25.  And  for  the  sake  of  the  elect  the  time  of 
tribute  and  of  tribulation  shall  be  cut  off  and  the 
glory  of  the  true  government  be  visibly  estab- 
lished.     Mat.   XXIV.   22.      And   now    (A.   D. 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT    189 

1917)  this  cutting  off  is  near.  Mat.  XXIV.  32, 
33.  Prepare  for  this  prophetical  fulfillment,  44- 
5 1 ,  this  new  dispensation,  this  glorification. 
John  XIII.  3 1 .  XVII.  4,  7,  1 1 ,  1 2.  1 3.  1 4,  1 7,  22. 

This  new  state  of  affairs  will  come  upon  the 
world  like  the  falling  of  a  snare.  Luke  XXI.  35. 
You  cannot  serve  God  and  ownership,  therefore 
serve  God  and  your  house  will  not  be  divided 
against  itself.  And  the  elect  from  the  four 
winds  and,  as  it  w^ere,  from  the  clouds  of  heaven, 
shall  come  with  power  over  all  the  earth  from 
one  end  to  the  other.  Mat.  XXIV.  31.  Mark 
XIII.  27.  Luke  XXI.  27.  And  they  shall  guide 
with  justice  and  control  with  peace  and  plenty, 
the  affairs  of  men.  And  where  the  clear-sighted 
clearly  see  to  safely  lead,  the  blind  can  safely 
follow. 

Abolish  ownership,  and  your  house,  your  gov- 
ernment, is  always  just  and  ever  consistent. 
And  it  is  also  unerringly,  happily,  universally, 
divinely  glorious.  And  in  this  house  there  is 
that  perfect  confidence,  that  true  faith,  that  love 
that  casteth  out  all  fear.     I  John   IV.    18.      In 


190       THE  ABOLITION  OF  OWNERSHIP: 

this  house  there  is  peace  on  eeu-th,  good  will 
among  men.  In  this  house  Heaven  and  earth  are 
at  one.  John  XVII.  21.  And  in  this  house  you 
shall  do  the  great  things,  the  things  that  Mam- 
monists  can  never  do.  John  XIV.  12.  For  in 
this  house  there  is  that  peace  which  satisfieth  all 
understanding.  Ph.  IV.  7.  John  XIV.  27.  XVI. 
33.  TTiis  house  is  the  Kingdom  of  God,  the 
true  government  of  men. 

It  is  the  will  of  God  that  it  should  come. 

Let  it  come.  Mat.  VI.  7-13.    Luke  XI.  2-4. 

And  the  revelation  of  w^hat  men  should  do 
and  of  what  they  in  their  hearts  should  be,  is 
free  and  uninterrupted,  and  men  see  it  and  hear 
it  even  as  they  desire  it,  and  shall  have  it  even  as 
they  deserve  it.  Ps.  XXXIV.  18.  LI.  17.  Is. 
LVII.  15-21.  LXVI.  22-24.  And  the  good  voice 
and  the  true  voice  are  one.  And  those  who  hear 
the  good  voice  and  desire  it,  and  welcome  it,  and 
obey  it,  they  hear  the  word  and  do  it,  and  they 
2u-e  the  meek,  and  they  are  the  faithful,  and  they 
are  the  elect,  and  they  shall  inherit  the  Ccirth. 
John  X.   Mat.  V.  5.   Luke  XI.  27,  28. 

Let  the  Will  of  God  be  done;  let  the  natural 


THE  NATURAL  GOVERNMENT  191 

government,  the  holy  spirit,  govern  in  earth  as 
in  heaven,  and  you  shall  see  grander  things 
than  you  have  ever  seen.  And  you  shall  do 
greater  things  than  the  greatest  of  men  has  ever 
done.    John  I.  50,  51.    Luke  X.  17-37.    John  V. 

20.  XIV.  12. 

You  shall  be  freed  from  the  money  god,  the 
spirit  of  evil,  the  devil.  Mat.  IV.  10,  11.  Luke 
IV.  8,  18-21.  And  you  shall  be  delivered  from 
all  evil.  Mat.  VI.  13.  Luke  XI.  4.  You  shall 
live  in  the  true  way  and  you  shall  have  the  per- 
fect happiness,  the  divine  peace.  John  XIV.  27. 
You  shall  be  truly  free.  John  VIII.  32.  XVII. 
17.  You  shall  enter  into  the  eternal  glory. 
John  III.  1.  John  III.  Jude  24,  25.  You  shall 
have  the  glory  divine.  John  XVII.  22.  You 
shall  have  the  perfect  government  and  the  per- 
fect citizenship.  Acts  III.  21.  Mat.  XVII.  11. 
Mark  IX.  7.    Rev.  XXII.  14.  15.  XXII.  14-21. 

Come.  Rev.  XXII.  1 7.  Come  and  you  shall 
enter  into  the  perfect  government,  the  King- 
dom of  God.  Come,  and  the  grace  of  the  per- 
fect vital  action  shall  be  with  you.    Rev.  XXII. 

21.  Amen. 


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